The specifics of non‐routine task changes: A granular approach

Abstract This paper estimates granular specific non‐routine tasks and examines employment reallocation across those tasks in the United States. Employment shifts into decision‐making, technology, and information‐related tasks account for 90% of high‐wage employment growth. The granularity reveals non‐routine abstract tasks are intensive in all skill environments and that non‐college men experienced deskilling arising from displacement from routine work and from non‐routine abstract tasks. This is potentially linked to the decline in supervisory employment. The pattern of task reallocation differs across genders. Both non‐college and college educated women expanded into a wider array of non‐routine abstract tasks relative to their male counterparts.