New Technology and Emerging Occupations: Evidence from Asia
Khatiwada, Sameer; Veloso, Mia Kim Maceda | April 2019
Abstract
One of the less well-understood channels through which technology affects labor market outcomes is the creation of new types of work. In this paper, we investigate the emergence of new occupations by comparing various classifications of occupations and predicting probabilities to access them given workers’ characteristics. Systematic comparisons of successive lists of National Classification of Occupations in India, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam find that most new job titles are primarily information and communication technology- and data-related positions within professional and associate professional occupational divisions. When utilizing microdata of India and Viet Nam, we find that emerging occupations, defined as occupation groups with new job titles, pay higher wages than nonemerging occupations. Further, when using logit models to predict chances of accessing emerging occupations given workers’ characteristics, the probability of success is greater for workers who are male, tertiary educated, urbanized, and employed in the service sectors. Adjusted predictions by education and sector show that access to emerging occupations is highest among tertiary-educated workers in services, and that chances of success vary greatly across different age groups.
Citation
Khatiwada, Sameer; Veloso, Mia Kim Maceda. 2019. New Technology and Emerging Occupations: Evidence from Asia. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9895. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
2313-6537 (print)
2313-6545 (electronic)
Keywords
Commerce and Industry
Intra-Industry Trade
Large Scale Industry
Labor
Technical Evaluation
Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Job creation
Occupation
Innovation
Industrialization
Industrial Economics
Industrial Development
Industrial Policy
Technology assessment
Technological institutes
Employment
Information Media
Mass Media
Export Oriented Industries
Electronics
Computers
Telecommunications Industry
Manufacturing Industries
Microprocessors
Electronic Equipment
Communication Industry
Project impact
Development projects
Program management
Performance appraisal
Project appraisal
Microelectronics industry
Electronic industries
Digital electronics
Microelectronics
Podcasts
Music videos
Internet videos
Interactive videos
Videos
Video recordings
Capital market
Developing countries
Market share
Labor
Technology transfer
Cumulative effects assessment
Job analysis
Task analysis
Cumulative effects assessment
Grievance procedures
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
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