Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations

The Human Side of Structural Transformation

“…In Appendix E.7 we perform back of the envelope calculations on the relative role of (i) and (ii) for the historical experience of the countries in our sample, guided by a simple extension of the model where h c responds endogenously to relative wages, in the same spirit as recent work byAdão et al (2020). We find that drivers of human capital growth exogenous to sector-specific demands account for 2/3 or more of the estimated cohort component; this conclusion is driven by a low cross-country correlation between the cohort and year components.…”

Consumption Inequality in the Digital Age

“…Source: Census, American Community Survey, Autor and Dorn (2013), BEA and own calculations. Adão et al (2020), among others, argue that in the context of ICT, it is more relevant to focus on cognitive tasks, which are presumably complementary to ICT capital. We define a cognitive-task intensity analogous to the routine-task intensity of Autor and Dorn (2013), by taking the log of abstract tasks divided by routine and manual tasks by occupation and defining a job as cognitiveintensive when this number is in the upper third of the distribution.…”

Technology and the Task Content of Jobs Across the Development Spectrum

“…Such changes in occupational employment are more pronounced among young cohorts of workers, who naturally move into occupations that expand, unbounded by occupationspecific human capital. Hobijn et al (2018) document disparities in sectoral allocations of workers across cohorts in the US, and Adao et al (2020) in Germany. Porzio et al (2020) report similar patterns across countries in different stages of development.…”