From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
| Autor: | Lo Bello, Salvatore, Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura, Winkler, Hernan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
LABOR MARKET LABOR SKILLS skills O*NET ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION O01 OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION J24 JOB CREATION SKILLED LABOR STEP O03 economic development WAGES EMPIRICAL MODEL FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION ddc:330 GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS AGRICULTURAL JOBS tasks ROUTINIZATION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT |
| Popis: | There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not provide a fair approximation of the levels, changes, and drivers of the routine cognitive and nonroutine manual skill content of jobs in developing countries. The paper also uncovers three new stylized facts. First, while developed countries tend to have jobs more intensive in nonroutine cognitive skills than developing countries, income (in growth and levels) is not associated with the skill content of jobs once the analysis accounts for other factors. Second, although adoption of information and communications technology is linked to job de-routinization, international trade is an offsetting force. Last, adoption of information and communications technology is correlated with lower employment growth in countries with a high share of occupations that are intensive in routine tasks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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