Putting tasks to the test: human capital, job tasks, and wages David H Autor and Michael J Handel.

By:

Autor, David H [author]

Contributor(s):

Handel, Michael J [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Journal of labor economics ; Volume 31, number 2,Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

0734306X

Subject(s):

Human capital -- Occupational qualification -- Occupational profile -- United States

LOC classification:

HD5706 JOU

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Abstract: Using original, representative survey data, we document that analytical, routine, and manual job tasks can be measured with high validity, vary substantially within and between occupations, are significantly related to workers’ characteristics, and are robustly predictive of wage differences between occupations and among workers in the same occupation. We offer a conceptual framework that makes explicit the causal links between human capital endowments, occupational assignment, job tasks, and wages, which motivate a Roy model of the allocation of workers to occupations. We offer two simple tests of the model’s gross predictions for the relationship between tasks and wages, both of which receive qualified empirical support.

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Using original, representative survey data, we document that analytical, routine, and manual job tasks can be measured with high validity, vary substantially within and between occupations, are significantly related to workers’ characteristics, and are robustly predictive of wage differences between occupations and among workers in the same occupation. We offer a conceptual framework that makes explicit the causal links between human capital endowments, occupational assignment, job tasks, and wages, which motivate a Roy model of the allocation of workers to occupations. We offer two simple tests of the model’s gross predictions for the relationship between tasks and wages, both of which receive qualified empirical support.

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