Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms

We contribute to the technology, skills, and jobs debate by exploiting a novel data set for Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms’ adoption of complex software used in client management, production, or administration and business software packages. Instrumental variables...

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Main Authors:	Almeida, Rita K., Fernandes, Ana M., Viollaz, Mariana
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2019
Subjects:	COMPLEX SOFTWARE TASKS LABOR SKILLS EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32770

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spelling	okr-10986-327702021-05-25T10:54:37Z Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms Almeida, Rita K. Fernandes, Ana M. Viollaz, Mariana COMPLEX SOFTWARE TASKS LABOR SKILLS EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION We contribute to the technology, skills, and jobs debate by exploiting a novel data set for Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms’ adoption of complex software used in client management, production, or administration and business software packages. Instrumental variables estimates show that, in the medium-run, adoption of this complex software reallocates employment away from professional and technical workers, toward administrative and unskilled workers (production and services). Adoption also increases the use of routine and manual tasks and reduces that of abstract tasks within firms. The contrast between ours and previous findings shows that labor market impacts of technology adoption hinge on the type of technology and its complementarity with the skills content of occupations. 2019-12-04T18:22:36Z 2019-12-04T18:22:36Z 2018-12-10 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32770 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Chile
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topic	COMPLEX SOFTWARE TASKS LABOR SKILLS EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
spellingShingle	COMPLEX SOFTWARE TASKS LABOR SKILLS EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE LABOR MARKET TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION Almeida, Rita K. Fernandes, Ana M. Viollaz, Mariana Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms
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description	We contribute to the technology, skills, and jobs debate by exploiting a novel data set for Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms’ adoption of complex software used in client management, production, or administration and business software packages. Instrumental variables estimates show that, in the medium-run, adoption of this complex software reallocates employment away from professional and technical workers, toward administrative and unskilled workers (production and services). Adoption also increases the use of routine and manual tasks and reduces that of abstract tasks within firms. The contrast between ours and previous findings shows that labor market impacts of technology adoption hinge on the type of technology and its complementarity with the skills content of occupations.
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author	Almeida, Rita K. Fernandes, Ana M. Viollaz, Mariana
author_facet	Almeida, Rita K. Fernandes, Ana M. Viollaz, Mariana
author_sort	Almeida, Rita K.
title	Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms
title_short	Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms
title_full	Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms
title_fullStr	Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms
title_full_unstemmed	Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms
title_sort	software adoption, employment composition and the skill content of occupations in chilean firms
publisher	Taylor and Francis
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Software Adoption, Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms

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