@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15772, author={Battisti, Michele and Dustmann, Christian and Schönberg, Uta}, title={Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers}, year={2022}, month={Nov}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={15772}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15772}, abstract={This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth than unaffected workers. Rather, firms that adopt T&O offer routine workers re-training opportunities to upgrade to more abstract jobs. Older workers form an important exception: T&O increases the risk that they permanently withdraw from the labor market and reduces their earnings, regardless of the tasks they performed in the firm prior to T&O.}, keywords={technological change;careers of workers}, }