To be (routine) or not to be (routine), that is the question: a cross-country task-based answer†

Abstract

This work proposes a new measure of the routine content of occupations and sectors for 20 OECD countries, based on information about the sequence and flexibility of the tasks performed on the job. A negative but weak association emerges between routineness and skill intensity, which suggests the importance of both technological and organizational considerations in the measure of routine intensity. Between 2000 and 2010, employment mainly grew in non-routine occupations, especially in market services, while manufacturing shed routine and non-routine jobs. Changes in shares of employment by routine quartile are dominated by within-effects.

The Rise of Robots and the Fall of Routine Jobs

“…Table 1). 32 The routine task intensity for each of these two-digit occupations is provided by Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) and, using an alternative approach, by Marcolin, Miroudot, and Squicciarini (2019). We use these to create a weighted average of the change in the employment share of production workers.…”

“…We use these to create a weighted average of the change in the employment share of production workers. The weights we use are the routine intensity index (RII) from Marcolin, Miroudot, and Squicciarini (2019) and the routine task intensity (RTI) gauged by Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003). The task intensity by occupation is reported in Appendix Table 4.…”

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“…Baste con señalar que, en un mundo en que los insumos de capital y el trabajo son complementarios y en que los primeros se producen en condiciones de rendimientos no decrecientes, los indicadores de la productividad total de los factores probablemente carecen de sentido e incluso podrían dar lugar a resultados equívocos. 12 Véase una comparación internacional de la dinámica del empleo rutinario en Marcolin, Miroudot y Squicciarini (2019). te las etapas de recesión económica.…”

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“…To shed light on the way in which GVC participation shapes employment levels and distribution two complementary analyses have been carried out. The first assesses the importance of GVC trade on jobs of different routine intensity (Marcolin et al, 2016 and2018a). The second revisits the import competition hypothesis and existing evidence related to the so-called polarisation of the labour market (Breemersch et al, 2017).…”