• digitalization
• routine
• wages

This work investigates the level of Digitalization and routineness of the Italian professions in 2008 and 2013, by means of two specific indices called Digitalization and Routine indices that we have calculated starting from the Survey on Italian Occupation (ICP). The first index measures the utilization of digital devices during worktime and the digital skills of the professions, while the second one, which is calculated in a very similar way to the well-known Routine task intensity of Autor and Dorn, identifies the level of routineness of each kind of job. In the paper, by merging the ICP dataset with the Italian labour force survey (ILFS), we have explored the relationship existing between these two indices, and their different impacts on Italian wages. There is almost a perfect negative correlation between them, and their effect on wages are inverse. Indeed, the results show how workers of professions associated to a higher level of Digitalization tend to obtain a positive premium on the level of wage on average, while, on the contrary, we observe a decrease in payments for larger Routine index levels. In the thesis, we have implemented different typologies of econometric models in order to deal with the problem of unobserved variables that could be correlated to the indices taken into account.