Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/196757 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12259
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
skills
tasks
economic development
O*NET
STEP
JEL: 
J24
O01
O03
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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