Dear colleagues,
We hereby invite you to join our next Economics
of Inequality Research Seminar at
WU Vienna.
Patrick Bennett (University
of Liverpool) will present the paper
The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility.
Co-authors: Kai Liu, Kjelll G. Salvanes
Date and Time: Monday, January 20; 3.00 p.m.
Location: WU Vienna, D3 - D3.0.218.
Abstract
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets and
using population wide panel data, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes upskilling among high school students, with a decrease in vocational-trades and in dropout, along with increases in college. Low school performers and low-SES students
are the most responsive and, as a result, intergenerational mobility in college education increases. Routine-biased technical change impacts the supply of skills of the next generation.
Please register your participation here.
Best regards,
Franziska Disslbacher
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Franziska Disslbacher, PhD
Assistant Professor
Institute for Spatial & Social-Ecological Transformations &
Research Institute
Economics of Inequality
WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria
CenTax Center for the Analysis of Taxation – University Warwick |
LSE International Inequalities Institute – Research Fellow |
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality CUNY |
SOEP / DIW – Associated Researcher
World Inequality Lab PSE– Research Fellow
franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at