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individual survey data on tasks performed on the job and administrative data on worker careers. Like prior studies, we find that … robots have reduced routine tasks. In sharp contrast, AI has reduced non-routine abstract tasks like information gathering … and increased the demand for ‘high-level’ routine tasks like monitoring processes. These task shifts mainly occur within …
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The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital …, and social skills as three important dimensions of basic skills. Recent advances in text analysis of online job postings … skills and earnings, including the matching of skill supply and demand, will enhance our understanding of the role of human …
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skills. Multidimensional skills can account for several important labor-market patterns. First, the number and composition of … skills are systematically related to measures of human-capital investment such as education and work experience. The number … of skills increases with experience, and the average age-skill profile closely resembles the well-established concave age …
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This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns …
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. Task changes are not only very common but provide information about the skills required across jobs. During recessions, a …
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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...
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under permanent contracts, firms increased their demand for workers with a college degree and social skills. At the same … offering jobs under fixed-term contracts, firms increased their demand for workers with some work experience and social skills …
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replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled workers. In Brazil, stringent labor market institutions exist to … workforce and fully benefiting from technology adoption. We show that digital technology adoption shifted the demand for skills … toward an increased use of non-routine and cognitive tasks. Furthermore, and in contrast with labor policy intentions, we …
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This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the effects of unionization on the dynamics of worker earnings across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting tax reforms to union due deductions as exogenous shocks to...
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