%0 Report
        %A Dupuy, Arnaud
%A Raux, Morgan
%A Signorelli, Sara
        %T Digitalization, Change in Skill Distance between Occupations and Worker Mobility: A Gravity Model Approach
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Dec
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17535
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17535
        %X The recent digital revolution has significantly broadened the scope of IT-related tasks in most occupations in the labor market. In this paper, we document these changes, we propose a novel conceptual framework for thinking about the effect of technological change that incorporates the changing task distance between occupations, and we investigate its impact on worker mobility using a gravity equation approach. Our results reveal that the evolution of skill distance between jobs significantly affected mobility patterns, disproportionately favoring workers with preexisting knowledge of digital tools. Finally, we micro-found our gravity equation through a matching model to evaluate mobility in counterfactual scenarios without technological change.
        %K occupation mobility
%K technological change
%K search and matching