Battisti, Michele;
Dustmann, Christian;
Schönberg, Uta;
(2023)
Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers.
Journal of the European Economic Association
, Article jvad014. 10.1093/jeea/jvad014.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth than unaffected workers. Rather, firms that adopt T&O offer routine workers re-training opportunities to upgrade to more abstract jobs. Older workers form an important exception: T&O increases the risk that they permanently withdraw from the labor market and reduces their earnings, regardless of the tasks they performed in the firm prior to T&O.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jeea/jvad014 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad014 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161559 |
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