From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development

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 pape...

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Main Authors:	Lo Bello, Salvatore, Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura, Winkler, Hernan
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	LABOR SKILLS JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL JOBS WAGES OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ROUTINIZATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/460301551120159026/From-Ghana-to-America-The-Skill-Content-of-Jobs-and-Economic-Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31332

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spelling	okr-10986-313322022-08-16T00:23:50Z From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development Lo Bello, Salvatore Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura Winkler, Hernan LABOR SKILLS JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL JOBS WAGES OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ROUTINIZATION 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. 2019-02-26T17:18:02Z 2019-02-26T17:18:02Z 2019-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/460301551120159026/From-Ghana-to-America-The-Skill-Content-of-Jobs-and-Economic-Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31332 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8758 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	LABOR SKILLS JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL JOBS WAGES OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ROUTINIZATION
spellingShingle	LABOR SKILLS JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL JOBS WAGES OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ROUTINIZATION Lo Bello, Salvatore Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura Winkler, Hernan From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Lo Bello, Salvatore Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura Winkler, Hernan
author_facet	Lo Bello, Salvatore Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura Winkler, Hernan
author_sort	Lo Bello, Salvatore
title	From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
title_short	From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
title_full	From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
title_fullStr	From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
title_full_unstemmed	From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
title_sort	from ghana to america : the skill content of jobs and economic development
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/460301551120159026/From-Ghana-to-America-The-Skill-Content-of-Jobs-and-Economic-Development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31332
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From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development

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