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Changes in Occupational Tasks and Their Association with Individual Wages and Occupational Mobility

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  • Fedorets Alexandra

    (German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),Berlin, Germany)

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This study provides novel evidence on the relevance of task content changes between and within occupations to wage dynamics of occupational changers and stayers. I use individual-level, cross-sectional data featuring tasks performed on the job to compute a measure of proximity of job contents. Then, I merge this measure to a large-scale panel survey to show that occupational changers experience a wage growth that is declining when the accompanying alterations in task contents are big. For occupational stayers, alterations in task contents generate a positive wage component, beyond tenure effect. However, the results are not robust with respect to the choice of proximity measure and over time.

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  • Fedorets Alexandra, 2019. "Changes in Occupational Tasks and Their Association with Individual Wages and Occupational Mobility," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 20(4), pages 295-328, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:germec:v:20:y:2019:i:4:p:e295-e328
    DOI: 10.1111/geer.12166
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    Cited by:

    1. Fedorets Alexandra & Kirchner Stefan & Adriaans Jule & Giering Oliver, 2022. "Data on Digital Transformation in the German Socio-Economic Panel," Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), De Gruyter, vol. 242(5-6), pages 691-705, December.
    2. Honorata Bogusz & Anna Matysiak & Michaela Kreyenfeld, 2023. "Structural Labour Market Change, Cognitive Work, and Fertility in Germany," Working Papers 2023-08, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw.

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    Keywords

    Human capital; wage premium; occupational change; task-based approach;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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