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Enghin Atalay | Zendy; Phai Phongthiengtham | Zendy; Sebastian Sotelo | Zendy; Daniel Tannenbaum | Zendy

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The Evolution of Work in the United States

Author(s) -

Enghin Atalay,

Phai Phongthiengtham,

Sebastian Sotelo,

Daniel Tannenbaum

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.20190070

Subject(s) - task (project management) , work (physics) , narrative , fraction (chemistry) , job market , computer science , economics , positive economics , mathematical economics , management , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry

Using the text from job ads, we introduce a new dataset to describe the evolution of work from 1950 to 2000. We show that the transformation of the US labor market away from routine cognitive and manual tasks and toward nonroutine interactive and analytic tasks has been larger than prior research has found, with a substantial fraction of total changes occurring within narrowly defined job titles. We provide narrative and systematic evidence on changes in task content within job titles and on the emergence and disappearance of individual job titles.

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