嘉    宾：冯    颖  助理教授 新加坡国立大学

主持人： 喻   洋   副教授 BAT365唯一官网

时    间：2024年9月23日（周一）14:00-15:30

地    点:  BAT365唯一官网徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院B207

内容简介：We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation in 1980, they were more likely to shift to high-skill, high-wage occupations than men over time. We provide a causal link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely than men to shift out of routine task-intensive occupations to high-skill, high wage occupations over the subsequent decade. The net effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College attainment among younger workers, particularly women, also rose significantly more in areas more exposed to automation. We propose a model of occupational choice with endogenous skill investments, where social skills and routine tasks are q-complements, and women have a comparative advantage in social skills, to explain the observed patterns. Supporting the model mechanisms, areas with greater exposure to automation experienced a greater movement of women into occupations with high social skill (and high cognitive) requirements than men.

演讲人简介：Ying Feng is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests are in macroeconomics and economic development.