Software Adoption, Employment Composition, and the Skill Content of Occupations in Chilean Firms
利用2007-2013年智利企业数据，发现采用复杂软件在中期内将就业从专业技术人员转向行政和非熟练工人，并增加常规和体力任务、减少抽象任务。
We contribute to the technology, skills, and jobs debate by exploiting a novel dataset for Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms’ adoption of complex software used in client management, production, or administration and business software packages. Instrumental variables estimates show that, in the medium-run, adoption of this complex software reallocates employment away from professional and technical workers, toward administrative and unskilled workers (production and services). Adoption also increases the use of routine and manual tasks and reduces that of abstract tasks within firms. The contrast between ours and previous findings shows that labour market impacts of technology adoption hinge on the type of technology and its complementarity with the skills content of occupations.