The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market

By F. Levy, Richard J. Murnane. 2004

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Positive Development in a Disorderly World (2011, background): “Jobs requiring rote labor are paying less and disappearing (Levy & Murnane, 2004).”
Teaching and Learning with iPads, Ready or Not? (2011, background): “…costs have dropped and as arguments about technology preparation of students take on increasing urgency given trends in global competitiveness (e.g., Levy & Murnane, 2004) the number of portable computers in learning environments has exploded (consider for example the number of 1:1 computer…”
Learning 21st-Century Skills Requires 21st-Century Teaching (2012, background): “Employers demand fewer people with basic skill sets and more people with complex thinking and communication skills (Levy & Murnane, 2005).”
What Counts as Literacy in Early Childhood (2008, background): “Literacy skills are a primary predictor of employability, and are strongly related to income (Murnane & Levy, 2004), evidence of their functionality.”
Artificial Intelligence and Journalism (2019, background): “Humans still have an edge over non-Hollywood AI in two key areas that are essential to journalism: complex communication and expert thinking (Levy & Murnane, 2004).”
Capitalism and Urbanization in a New Key? The Cognitive-Cultural Dimension (2007, background): “On the one hand as Autor et al. (2003) and Levy and Murnane (2004) have argued, the advent of computerization has meant that many of the routine functions that were integral to the work of both the old white-collar fraction (e.g. accounting, records management, calculating, information sorting and…”
The rise of offshoring: it's not wine for cloth anymore (2006, background): “Like Levy and Murnane (2004), he emphasizes that the tradability of a task does not correspond perfectly (or even very well) with the skill required to perform it.”
Task Trade between Similar Countries (2011, positive): “Levy and Murnane (2004) and Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) applied the concept to explain variation in the costs of offshoring.”
The Increasing Importance of Geographical Proximity in Knowledge Production: An Analysis of US Patent Citations, 1975–1997 (2008, background): “Short product lifecycles also mean that R&D workers face greater technological uncertainty, which is reflected in their use of noncodified knowledge characterized by a high level of conceptual complexity (Levy and Murnane, 2004).”
Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring (2008, positive): “Levy and Murnane (2004) argue that the routine tasks are easier to move offshore than the others, because the relevant information can be exchanged with fewer misunderstandings.”
STEM Related After-School Program Activities and Associated Outcomes on Student Learning (2013, background): “(Student 10) In sum, The STEM related after-school activities helped the students develop and use their complex communication and collaboration skills (Levy & Murnane, 2004; Jerald, 2009; Wagner, 2008).”