organize production to use less labor in professional occupations compared to high-wage establishments operating in the same … occupations, employ fewer managers, and have substantially wider supervisory spans of control. These results indicate that … intensively use labor in skilled occupations. …

I develop an assignment model of occupations with multidimensional heterogeneity in production tasks and worker skills … types. Occupations arise endogenously as bundles of tasks optimally assigned to a type of worker. The model allows us to … study how occupations respond to changes in the economic environment, making it useful for analyzing the implications of …