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 retraining 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 …

Focusing next on the effects of T&O on routine and abstract employment shares at the firm
level, we find that in firms that implement T&O the employment share of routine jobs 1 See,
for example, Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003), Goos and Manning (2007), the survey by
Acemoglu and Autor (2011), and the theoretical contribution of Feng and Graetz (2019).[...]
Therefore,∆??? denotes the decline in the routine employment share among surviving
firms;? 0? denotes the base period employment share of firms that exit between the base …