Data and Code for “Within Occupation Changes Dominate Changes in What Workers Do: A Shift-Share Decomposition, 2005-2015”
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Richard Freeman, Harvard University. Department of Economics; Ina Ganguli, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Michael Handel, Northeastern University
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Project Citation:
Freeman, Richard, Ganguli, Ina , and Handel, Michael. Data and Code for “Within Occupation Changes Dominate Changes in What Workers Do: A Shift-Share Decomposition, 2005-2015.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-09-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E120830V1
Project Description
Summary:
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This paper measures aggregate changes in job characteristics in the U.S. from 2005 to 2015, and decomposes those changes into components representing shifts within occupations and changes in occupational employment shares. Per our title, within-occupation changes dominate, raising doubts about the ability of projections based on expected changes in the occupational composition of employment to capture the likely future of work. Indeed, our data show only weak relationships between automatability, repetitiveness, and other job attributes and changes in occupational employment. The results suggest that analysts give greater attention to within-occupation impacts of technology in assessing the future of work.
Funding Sources:
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (B-2017-9943-OWRR);
IBM (7643026-01-1-1)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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occupations;
technological change;
tasks;
shift-share decomposition
JEL Classification:
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J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J60 Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J60 Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
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