Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schoenberg, Uta
• 署名单位: University of Glasgow; University of London; University College London; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvad014
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 1551-1594
• 关键词: skill content; wage workers; job; polarization; LABOR; AGE; INFORMATION; EMPLOYMENT; demand; tasks

摘要

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 retraining 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.