From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content ofjobs. This article contributes to this research by using data on thetask content of occupations from developing countries, instead of US data as most existing studies do. It finds...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/635051551724745132/From-Ghana-to-America-The-Skill-Content-of-Jobs-and-Economic-Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31354 |
| Summary: | There is a growing body of literature
exploring the skill content ofjobs. This article contributes
to this research by using data on thetask content of
occupations from developing countries, instead of US data as
most existing studies do. It finds that US-based indexes do
not provide a fair approximation of the levels, changes and
drivers of the routine cognitive and non-routine manual
skill content of jobs in developing countries. The authors
also uncover three new stylized facts. First, while
developed countries tend to have jobsmore intensive in
non-routine cognitive skills than developing ones, income
(both in growth and levels) is not associated with the skill
content of jobs once other factors are accounted for.
Second,while ICT adoption is linked to job de-routinization,
international trade is an off setting force. Last, ICT
adoption is correlated with lower employment growth in
countries with a high share of occupations intensive in
routine tasks. |
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