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Low‐skill jobs and routine tasks specialization: New insights from Italian provinces
Author(s) -
Brunetti Irene,
Intraligi Valerio,
Ricci Andrea,
Cirillo Valeria
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12538
Subject(s) - economic geography , regional science , psychology , business , economics , geography
This paper analyses the relationship between the specialization in routine tasks and the growth of low‐skill jobs in Italian provinces. At this aim, we use data of the Italian Labour Force survey and map the US information on tasks content by occupation into a detailed (3 digit) classification of Italian occupations. We find two main results. First, the degree of specialization in routine‐tasks has a positive effect on the growth of low‐skill jobs at province level. Second, the local specialization in routine tasks favours the growth of the graduated workers employed in low‐skill jobs and, then, the over‐education pattern in Italy. Finally, our findings are robust to spatial heterogeneity and endogeneity issues.