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Title: The Evolving U.S. Occupational Structure

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Using the text from job ads, we construct a new data set of occupational content from 1960 to 2000. We document that within-occupation task content shifts are at least as important as employment shifts across occupations in accounting for the aggregate decline of routine tasks. Motivated by these patterns, we first apply our new task measures to a reduced-form statistical decomposition. We then embed our measures in an equilibrium model of occupational choice. These two exercises indicate that shifts in the relative demand for tasks account for much of the increase in 90-10 earnings inequality observed over our sample period.

Url: https://ssc.wisc.edu/~eatalay/APST_task.pdf

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

Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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