Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany: A decomposition analysis.

Autor/inn/en	Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
Titel	Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany: A decomposition analysis. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufliche Tätigkeiten und Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland: Eine Dekompositionsanalyse.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2022) 79, Art. 102284, 18 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102284
Schlagwörter	Technologische Entwicklung; Einkommensunterschied; Lohnentwicklung; Lohnstruktur; Niedrig qualifizierte Arbeit; Berufsgruppe; Erwerbstätiger; Qualifikationsanforderung; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; 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 allow 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, © 2022 Elsevier)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1