IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability - HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Scandinavian Journal of Economics Année : 2016

IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability

Luc Behaghel

Résumé

We investigate the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 cities in France, from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. The evidence goes against the view that the diffusion of IT has spurred job instability. Yet, analysing long-term differences in the occupational structure, we find that IT diffusion has increased the share of high-skill occupations at the expense of low-skill occupations. This is consistent with French firms' reliance on their internal labour market to meet the new skill requirements associated with IT diffusion.

Dates et versions

hal-02630522 , version 1 (27-05-2020)

Identifiants

Citer

Luc Behaghel, Julie Moschion. IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), pp.79-104. ⟨10.1111/sjoe.12129⟩. ⟨hal-02630522⟩
26 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More