Biased technological change and employment reallocation

Zsófia L. Bárány*, Christian Siegel

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

To study the drivers of the employment reallocation across sectors and occupations between 1960 and 2017 in the US we present a model where technology evolves at the sector-occupation cell level. Drawing on key equations of the production side we infer technologies directly from the data. We assess the magnitude of neutral, sector-, and occupation-specific components in technological change and study their consequences for labor market outcomes in general equilibrium where occupational choice and demands for sectoral outputs change endogenously with technology. Our findings indicate a major role for occupation-specific technological changes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number101930
JournalLabour Economics
Volume67
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Biased technological change
  • Employment polarization
  • Structural change

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