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Title: Computerization, Composition of Employment, and Structure of Wages

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: Investment in technology has been consistently growing since the 1950s when the mainframe started to influence business organizations, followed by the introduction of the PC, the internet, and mobile plat- forms. To address these structural changes on the U.S. labor market, we build a general equilibrium model of product differentiation in which job tasks are indexed by the levels of autonomy and social per- ceptiveness. We find that high-level autonomy tasks have experienced the biggest wage growth, while emotional tasks have experienced the biggest employment growth. Educational attainment displays rela- tively small variation over time and has narrowed among our labor groups.

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Authors: Plant, Robert; Santos, Manuel, S; Sayed, Tarek

Publisher: University of Miami

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States