Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/147893 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10207
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the relationship between job complexity and the skills development of adult workers in Europe using the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey (ESJS). The results suggest that challenging workplaces, workplaces in which jobs are designed to include complex tasks, and which place high demands on workers' skills, also stimulate workers' skills development. Increasing the degree of job complexity has positive and robust effects on the degree of skill development, and so does an increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace characteristics for adult workers' skills development.
Subjects: 
job characteristics
job complexity
skills
skills development
learning
JEL: 
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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