Technological Change and the Labor Market in Argentina and Uruguay : A Task Content Analysis
The objective of this paper is to analyze the employment profile trends in Argentina and Uruguay according to the task content performed by the workers in their jobs. The paper aims to produce an approximation of the impact of technological change...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/171901507816912979/Technological-change-and-the-labor-market-in-Argentina-and-Uruguay-a-task-content-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28550 |
| Summary: | The objective of this paper is to
analyze the employment profile trends in Argentina and
Uruguay according to the task content performed by the
workers in their jobs. The paper aims to produce an
approximation of the impact of technological change on the
labor market. The paper uses the definition of an indicator
that captures the relative importance of four types of
tasks, cognitive/manual and routine/nonroutine, based on the
information provided by Occupational Information Network and
household surveys. The analysis finds that in the last two
decades the relative importance of cognitive tasks in the
workplace has increased in line with the reduction of manual
tasks, particularly among the youngest cohorts. |
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