Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295763 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16740
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find that adopters of frontier technologies contribute substantially to deroutinization. However, this is driven only by a subset of these firms: large adopters replace routine jobs and less routine-intensive adopters experience faster growth. These scale and composition effects reflect firms' readiness to adopt and implement frontier technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and an increase in between-firm heterogeneity.
Subjects: 
technology
automation
tasks
capital-labor substitution
decomposition
JEL: 
J21
J23
J24
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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