Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America
We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International Asse...
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| author | Irene Brambilla Andrés César Guillermo Falcone Leonardo Gasparini Carlo Lombardo |
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| description | We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC) with labor market microdata from harmonized national household surveys. We find that the increase in jobs was decreasing in the automatability of the tasks typically performed in each occupation, and increasing in the initial wage, a pattern more consistent with the traditional skill-biased technological change than with the polarization hypothesis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9b93d3428ba84e4c8c37a73d473c94d92024-04-16T19:22:05ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Desarrollo y Sociedad0120-35841900-77602023-10-019513117610.13043/DYS.95.4Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin AmericaIrene Brambilla0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7003-5805Andrés César1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6575-4899Guillermo Falcone2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4836-3236Leonardo Gasparini3Carlo Lombardo4https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2433-8230CEDLAS (IIE-FCE-UNLP) and CONICETCEDLAS (IIE-FCE-UNLP) and CONICETCEDLAS (IIE-FCE-UNLP) and CONICETCEDLAS (IIE-FCE-UNLP) and CONICETCEDLAS (IIE-FCE-UNLP) and CONICETWe study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIACC) with labor market microdata from harmonized national household surveys. We find that the increase in jobs was decreasing in the automatability of the tasks typically performed in each occupation, and increasing in the initial wage, a pattern more consistent with the traditional skill-biased technological change than with the polarization hypothesis.https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/dys/article/view/770/9015jobstechnologyautomationlatin america |
| spellingShingle | Irene Brambilla Andrés César Guillermo Falcone Leonardo Gasparini Carlo Lombardo Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America Desarrollo y Sociedad jobs technology automation latin america |
| title | Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America |
| title_full | Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America |
| title_fullStr | Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America |
| title_full_unstemmed | Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America |
| title_short | Routinization and Employment: Evidence for Latin America |
| title_sort | routinization and employment evidence for latin america |
| topic | jobs technology automation latin america |
| url | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/dys/article/view/770/9015 |
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