The Effect of Intensive Margin Changes to Task Content on Employment Dynamics over the Business Cycle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3262988 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Ro (0000-0002-7806-3138, Matthew Ross is a Research Assistant Professor at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1036-1064 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019793920910747 |
| OpenAlex | W3011247221 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Previous empirical studies investigating the employment impact of technological change have relied on cross-sectional measures of occupational tasks. Here, the author links microdata on individual workers to panel data on occupational tasks while controlling for individual unobservables. In examining the association between routine and abstract tasks and employment transitions, he finds new and economically important evidence that changes to tasks within occupations are strongly related to variation in the transition rates to non-employment and to different occupations. Consistent with recent work focused on technological change during the Great Recession, within-occupation increases in routine tasks are found to increase outgoing transition rates but these effects are concentrated during periods of economic turmoil. The results also show that increases in abstract tasks are associated with decreases in the outgoing transition rates, but this relationship is relatively invariant to business cycle conditions
Business cycle · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Great recession · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Microdata (statistics) · Panel data · Recession · Sociology · Technological change · Transition (genetics) · Variation (astronomy) · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
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Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration
Technical Change, Job Tasks, and Rising Educational Demands
Putting Tasks to the Test
The Race between Man and Machine
Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987
The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change
The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |