Regional employment change - task change, occupations and industries

In this thesis, I study how routinization-the process of codifying and automating job tasks-influences regional employment change. I examine two questions. First, does routinization drive employment change in US metropolitan areas after controlling for occupation and industry mix? Second, does overall employment change occur more strongly through occupational change than industry change across US metropolitan areas? My analysis finds that routinization is a major determinant of both total and relative changes across industry-occupation employment groups; changes in industry group employment have been more important influences on overall employment change than changes in occupation group employment; the difference between occupation group and industry group effects are lessening over time; and joint industry and occupation effects are decreasingly less important in understanding employment change. These findings underscore the importance of task--change in determining employment change and in understanding industries versus occupations as categories for analyzing the evolution of regional economies.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agr & Consumer Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Amir-Ghassemi, Azad

Contributors dc:contributor

• Feser, Edward
• Feser, Edward J.

• occupation
• industry
• routinization
• task change

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution CC BY

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78287

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/78287