Closing in on Closure

Stuth, Stefan

doi:10.5771/9783845280172

2017

DOI: 10.5771/9783845280172

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Closing in on Closure

Stefan Stuth¹

Abstract: In Cornell I had the necessary quiet time to start the long and slow process of rewriting my German dissertation sections in English and to get my theory straight. Special thanks go to Jürgen Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik who convinced me in a very early stage of my dissertation to analyze detailed 4-digit occupations instead of occupational groupings as well as to Samuel Greef and Wolfgang Schroeder who allowed me to use parts of their exceptional survey data on occupational associations and occupation-specific trade uni… Show more

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Change in occupational tasks and its implications: evidence from a task panel from 1973 to 2011 for Western Germany

Maier

2021

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The change of tasks in occupations is of interest to economic and sociological research from three perspectives. The task-based technological change approach describes tasks as the link between capital input and labor demand. In human capital theory, tasks are used to distinguish between general and specific human capital. Moreover, in institutional economics or sociology, it is argued that the specificity of occupations influences the marketability of the corresponding skills and tasks. However, data sources that illustrate task change within occupations are rare. The objective of this paper is therefore to introduce a task panel, which is created based on 16 cross-sectional surveys from between 1973 and 2011 of the German microcensus (Labor-Force-Survey), as an additional source to monitor task change. I present and discuss the harmonization method for eleven main activities that are exercised by the incumbents of the occupation within 176 occupational groups. To demonstrate the research potential of this novel data source, I develop an alternative theoretical view on the task-technology framework and classify the harmonized tasks according to their relationship to technological inventions in the third industrial (micro-electronic) revolution (technologically replaceable, technology-accompanying, technology-complementary and technologically neutral). Matching the task panel to an already existing Occupational Panel (OccPan) for Western Germany from 1976 to 2010, I can use fixed-effect regressions to show that changes of tasks within occupations correspond with theoretical expectations regarding the median wage growth of an occupation. The task panel can be matched to any data set containing a German classification of occupations from 1975, 1988 or 1992 to investigate further effects of task change on individual labor market success.

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Change in occupational tasks and its implications: evidence from a task panel from 1973 to 2011 for Western Germany

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Occupation-Based Measures—An Overview and Discussion

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Occupational information is among the most versatile categories of information about a person available in quantitative data. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of occupation-based measures in different topic areas. These include not only measures for analyzing social stratification, such as prestige scales, socioeconomic indices and class schemes but also measures of workplace tasks, occupation-specific health risks, gender segregation, and occupational closure. Moreover, as the quality of such data depends on the quality of the underlying occupational information, we also provide an overview of how to collect occupational information in surveys, how to code this information, and how occupational classifications are commonly used. By doing so, we hope to increase researchers’ awareness of the potential of occupation-based analyses, as well as their knowledge of how to properly handle such measures in empirical analyses.

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Occupational Closure and Wage Inequality: How Occupational Closure Effects Vary Between Workers

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Closing in on Closure

Cited by 6 publications

References 122 publications

Change in occupational tasks and its implications: evidence from a task panel from 1973 to 2011 for Western Germany

Change in occupational tasks and its implications: evidence from a task panel from 1973 to 2011 for Western Germany

Occupation-Based Measures—An Overview and Discussion

Occupational Closure and Wage Inequality: How Occupational Closure Effects Vary Between Workers

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