Changes in Occupational Tasks and Their Association with Individual Wages and Occupational Mobility

• DOI: 10.1111/geer.12166
• Publication Date: 2018-06-04T06:56:01Z
• Authors: Alexandra Fedorets
• Keywords: Merge (version control); Wage growth; Panel survey

Abstract This study provides novel evidence on the relevance of task content changes between and within occupations to wage dynamics occupational changers stayers. I use individual-level, cross-sectional data featuring tasks performed job compute a measure proximity contents. Then, merge this large-scale panel survey show that experience growth is declining when accompanying alterations in contents are big. For stayers, generate positive component, beyond tenure effect. However, results not robust with respect choice over time.