Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis.

Autor/inn/en	Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Occupational Tasks and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Decomposition Analysis. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufliche Tätigkeiten und Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland: Eine Dekompositionsanalyse.
Quelle	Bonn (2022), 66 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 15702
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102284
Schlagwörter	Technologische Entwicklung; Einkommensunterschied; Lohnentwicklung; Lohnstruktur; Niedrig qualifizierte Arbeit; Berufsgruppe; Erwerbstätiger; Qualifikationsanforderung; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Integrierte Arbeitsmarktbiografien; Mann; Deutschland
Abstract	"We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allows us to account for within-occupation changes in task content over time. We run RIF regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality since the 1990s, both at the top and the bottom of the wage distribution. Specifically, abstract tasks drive the upper wage gap, while interactive and routine tasks drive the lower wage gap. Importantly, we find low-wage occupations to have the highest routine task intensity. The association between occupational tasks and West German wage inequality is thus both stronger and different than prior research has found." The study refers to the period 1979-2006. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1