Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Edin, Per-Anders; Evans, Tiernan; Graetz, Georg; Hernnaes, Sofia; Michaels, Guy
• 署名单位: Uppsala University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/uead027
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 2178-2209
• 关键词: biased technological-change; job polarization; tasks; specificity; automation; EMPLOYMENT; FUTURE; COSTS; panel

摘要

We assess the career earnings losses that individual Swedish workers suffered when their occupations' employment declined. High-quality data allow us to overcome sorting into declining occupations on various attributes, including cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Our estimates show that occupational decline reduced mean cumulative earnings from 1986-2013 by no more than 2%-5%. This loss reflects a combination of reduced earnings conditional on employment, reduced years of employment and increased time spent in unemployment and retraining. While on average workers successfully mitigated their losses, those initially at the bottom of their occupations' earnings distributions lost up to 8%-11%.