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Title: The Inequality Implications of Occupational Evolution

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: This paper explores the inequality implications of the evolution of occupations. It develops an equilibrium model of occupational choice, based on worker’s comparative advantage, in which jobs are bundles of tasks that a worker must perform. We bring this model to measures on the changing task contents of within occupations, and we find that shifts in the relative demand for tasks account for a large fraction of the increase in 90-10 earnings inequality observed over our sample period.

Url: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ssotelo/research/APST_inequality.pdf

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Authors: Atalay, Enghin; Phongthiengtham, Phai; Sotelo, Sebastian; Tannebaum, Daniel

Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Methodology and Data Collection, Population Data Science

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