From Occupations to Embedded Skills : A Cross-Country Comparison
This paper derives the skill content of 30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones, from the occupational structure of their economies. Five different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of skill content show that the intensi...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/18091484/occupations-embedded-skills-cross-country-comparison http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15926 |
| Summary: | This paper derives the skill content of
30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones,
from the occupational structure of their economies. Five
different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of
skill content show that the intensity of national production
of manual skills declines with per capita income in a
monotonic way, while it increases for non-routine cognitive
and interpersonal skills. For some countries, the analysis
is able to trace the development of skill intensities of
aggregate production over time. The paper finds that
although the increasing intensity of non-routine skills is
uniform across countries, patterns of skill intensities with
respect to different forms of routine skills differ markedly. |
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