Andreas Hoff (ed.), Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe: Societal and Policy Implications, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, 2011, 290 pp., hbk £60.00, ISBN 13: 978 0 7546 7828 1.

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1081-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAT LIEVESLEY
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Ashgate Publishing

A routine transition in the digital era? The rise of routine work in Central and Eastern Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roma Keister ◽  
Piotr Lewandowski
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Cognitive Tasks ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
European Economies

In this article, we study the shift from manual to cognitive work in 10 Central and Eastern European economies. While highlighting the growth in the non-routine cognitive component of jobs, we pay particular attention to the increase in routine cognitive tasks, a trend distinguishing Central and Eastern European economies from the most advanced economies. We find that in all countries routine cognitive tasks were most common in the middle of wage distribution, but increasingly rare among the top earners. We identify two groups of workers whose jobs depend most on performing routine cognitive tasks: medium-skilled men in the manufacturing sectors and medium-skilled women in the service sectors, who jointly represent 33 per cent of Central and Eastern European workers. Should technological progress reduce demand for routine work in Central and Eastern Europe, a large proportion of workers would be affected and wage inequality would rise. We conclude with the policy implications of our findings.

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