The Evolution of Work in the United States
By Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastián Sotelo, Daniel I. Tannenbaum. 2020
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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.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018 (2022, methodology): “Complementing work by Lin (2011); Acemoglu and Restrepo (2018, 2019); Atalay et al. (2020); Deming and Noray (2020), we construct a novel and detailed inventory of new labor-using tasks that allows us to study the evolution and origins of new work over 1940–2018 using representative U.S. Census and…”
- Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (2020, unknown): “For instance, digitized information on workers and job postings have been used to track the supply and demand of IT labor as a proxy for IT diffusion in the economy (e.g., Tambe and Hitt 2012, 2020; Webb 2019; Bana et al, 2020; Tambe et al. 2020; Atalay et al. 2020).”
- Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* (2020, methodology): “However, we can study the impact of technological change in earlier years using data from Atalay et al. (2020). Atalay et al. (2020) assemble the full text of job advertisements in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Boston Globe between 1940 and 2000, and they create measures of job skill ”