Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Abstract
I adopt a measure of task-based routineness from Autor and Dorn (2013) to investigate the effects of routineness on various demographic groups. I analyze data from the Current Population Surveys between 1976 and 2017 to determine which groups, separated by race, gender, and age, are most strongly affected by routine-biased technological change. My findings suggest that women are most negatively affected by occupational routineness. Further, both women’s concentration in highly routine occupations and women’s educational attainment trends from 1976 to 2017 could explain women’s increasing susceptibility to changes in routineness.
Recommended Citation
Lindsay, Madison, "An analysis of skill-biased technical change across demographic groups" (2018). Honors Theses. 1328.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1328