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Firm Size and the Task Content of Jobs: Evidence from 47 Countries
De Vera, Micole; Garcia-Brazales, Javier - 2021
larger firms perform more non-routine analytical and interpersonal tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover …, workers in larger firms rely more on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to perform these tasks. We …
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The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs
de Vries, Gaaitzen J.; Gentile, Elisabetta; Miroudot, … - 2020
the industry's share of tasks replaceable by robots-to identify the impact of robot usage on employment. The data allow us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665049
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The role of within-occupation task changes in wage development
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin; … - 2022
We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412989
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426304
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Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion
Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022
' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity … emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426443
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The empirics of technology, employment and occupations: lessons learned and challenges ahead
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022
What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455503
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Automation with heterogeneous agents: The effect on consumption inequality
Santini, Tommaso - 2022
In this paper, I study technological change as a candidate for the observed increase in consumption inequality in the United States. I build an incomplete market model with educational choice combined with a task-based model on the production side. I consider two channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465071
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The Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes in Wage Development
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin P.; … - 2022
We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470410
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Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis
Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data … regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage … distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470465
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The Empirics of Technology, Employment and Occupations: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2022
What have we learned, from the most recent years of debate and analysis, of the future of work being threatened by technology? This paper presents a critical review of the empirical literature and outlines both lessons learned and challenges ahead. Far from being fully exhaustive, the review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470494