Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment

Duernecker, Georg; Herrendorf, Berthold

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3932029

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“…1 Acemoglu and Autor (2011) and Autor and Dorn (2013) analyze the effect of changes in the occupational structure over time on employment and wages. Kambourov and Manovskii (2009a) emphasize the effect of increased occupational mobility on wage inequality while Duernecker and Herrendorf (2016) study the role of the occupational composition in structural transformation.…”

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Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Erosa

Fuster

Kambourov

et al. 2022

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

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Goldin (2014) offers a narrative in which gender differences in home production responsibilities create gender gaps in labor market outcomes. We carry out a model-based quantitative assessment of this narrative and find that it can account for a significant share of gender gaps in occupational choice, wages, and hours. Our analysis emphasizes the quantitative significance of two key elements not highlighted by Goldin: heterogeneity in comparative advantage and multimember households. Gender differences in nonmarket responsibilities have important aggregate effects on welfare and productivity, similar to those emphasized by Hsieh et al. (2019). (JEL J16, J22, J24, J31, J71)

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Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

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“…This compositional link between occupations and structural change accords withLee and Shin (2017) but differs fromDuernecker and Herrendorf (2016), who assign occupations to sectors.…”

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Technology and the Task Content of Jobs across the Development Spectrum

Shin¹,

Keller²,

Caunedo³

2022

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The tasks workers perform on the job are informative about the direction and the impact of technological change. We harmonize occupational task content measures between two worker-level surveys, which separately cover developing and developed countries. Developing countries use routine-cognitive tasks and routine-manual tasks more intensively than developed countries, but less intensively use non-routine analytical tasks and non-routine interpersonal tasks. This is partly because developing countries have more workers in occupations with high routine contents and fewer workers in occupations with high non-routine contents. More important, a given occupation has more routine contents and less non-routine contents in developing countries than in developed countries. Since 2006, occupations with high non-routine contents gained employment relative to those with high routine contents in most countries, regardless of their income level or initial task intensity, indicating the global reaches of the technological change that reduces the demand for occupations with high routine contents.* We greatly benefited from many helpful suggestions by Doug Gollin, Joe Kaboski and other members of STEG's Academic Steering Committee, as well as from conversations with Charles Gottlieb and Christian Moser. We thank Lucia Casal and Luming Chen for their outstanding research assistance. Caunedo and Keller gratefully acknowledge CEPR's financial support.

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“…10 shows that some of the workers formally employed in the manufacturing sector are in fact performing service-related occupations as clerks, professionals or technicians, or craft workers in the services). Duernecker and Herrendorf (2020) have proposed a distinction between categories of occupations that broadly map into the traditional distinction among the main economic sectors, although they are not necessarily attached to a specific sector. The categories are (1) goods occupations, which are related to the production of tangible value added; and (2) services occupations, which are related to the production of intangible value added.…”

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“…Notes: Each column reports a regression linking the first difference in the share of employment in one of the three sectors (agriculture, manufacturing, services) against the first difference in the share of workers classified into goods (tangible) or services (intangible) types of occupations according to the definition byDuernecker & Herrendorf (2020). The latter refers only to those employed within a specific sector.…”

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Services, Jobs, and Economic Development in Africa

Baccini¹,

Fiorini²,

Hoekman³

et al. 2022

The World Bank Research Observer

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This article presents data and analyzes the structure of employment in 13 African economies at the administrative unit level, with a focus on the role of services. We provide two novel pieces of evidence. First, we present a descriptive snapshot of changes in the composition of employment over time and across geographies. This reveals evidence of structural transformation toward services and service-related occupations at subnational level and provides a fine-grained overview of who works in services and where and how this has changed over time. Second, we provide correlations between services and economic development, using per capita nightlight luminosity as a proxy. We document (1) a strong positive association between high skills services and economic development; (2) substantial heterogeneity across industries within services; and (3) a mediating role of market conditions and technology in the relation between services and economic development. Overall, our work highlights an important role of services activities for employment, skills, and economic development in Africa.

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Structural Transformation of Occupation Employment

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Technology and the Task Content of Jobs across the Development Spectrum

Services, Jobs, and Economic Development in Africa

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