Wage inequality in Uruguay: Technological change impact on occupational tasks

Based on the “task approach” to labor markets this research seeks to analyze the contribution of technology content of tasks as another explanation factor to the distribution of men wages in Uruguay during the nineties and the first decade of the 2000s. We use unconditional quantile regressions (UQR) and a decomposition method based on the recentered influence function (RIF) regression approach. Our estimates suggest that technological task content of occupations contributes to explain changes in the distribution of men wages in Uruguay, but these effects are better capture by the information content of task rather than the automation content, therefore we cannot confirm Autor, Levy and Murnane’s routinization hypothesis.