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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w28061 |
来源ID | Working Paper 28061 |
Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to the Mechanization of Telephone Operation | |
James Feigenbaum; Daniel P. Gross | |
发表日期 | 2020-11-09 |
出版年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Telephone operation was among the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted mechanical switching technology in over half of the U.S. telephone network, replacing manual operation. Although automation eliminated most of these jobs, it did not affect future cohorts’ overall employment: the decline in operators was counteracted by reinstating demand in middle-skill clerical jobs and lower-skill service jobs. Using a new genealogy-based census-linking method, we show that incumbent telephone operators were most impacted, and a decade later more likely to be in lower-paying occupations or have left the labor force. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel ; History ; Labor and Health History ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28061 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585734 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James Feigenbaum,Daniel P. Gross. Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to the Mechanization of Telephone Operation. 2020. |
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