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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w29866 |
来源ID | Working Paper 29866 |
Computerization of White Collar Jobs | |
Marcus Dillender; Eliza Forsythe | |
发表日期 | 2022-03-28 |
出版年 | 2022 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings from 2007 and 2010--2016 for office and administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at the job-title level they increase the skills required of job applicants. Furthermore, firms change the task content of such jobs, broadening them to include tasks associated with higher-skill office functions. We aggregate these patterns to the local labor-market level, instrumenting for local technology adoption with national measures. We find that a 1 standard deviation increase in OAS technology usage reduces employment in OAS occupations by about 1 percentage point and increases wages for college graduates in OAS jobs by over 3 percent. We find negative wage spillovers, with wages falling for both workers with and without a college degree. These results are consistent with technological adoption inducing a realignment in task assignment across occupations, leading office support occupations to become higher skill. We argue relative wage gains for OAS workers indicates that factor-augmenting features of OAS technological change dominate task-substituting features. In addition, while we find that total employment increases, these gains primarily accrue to college-educated women. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29866 |
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/587538 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcus Dillender,Eliza Forsythe. Computerization of White Collar Jobs. 2022. |
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