We use information from the new OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to investigate the link between job tasks and … workers with well-matched skills to their job duties. Jobs are categorised according to the nature of tasks, including the … the (indirect) mapping between tasks and skills as predicted by the task approach to labour economics. Given the marked …

largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … others require proximity. We construct a measure of task connectivity to investigate which tasks are more likely to require … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher …

executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our …

of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent workers performing high-physical and low-intellectual tasks; (2) apply a …

effects across skill groups, occupational tasks performed, and gender. Employment reactions to digitalization are most … pronounced for both low- and high-skilled workers, for workers with non-routine tasks, and for female workers. Our results …

pronounced for workers in occupations intensive in routine manual or routine cognitive tasks, but are insignificant in … occupations intensive in non-routine cognitive tasks. For young and old workers in countries with low levels of labour costs …

repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a larger spectrum of tasks. We then explore how the routine intensity of … jobs affects the urban wage premium. We find that the urban wage premium is higher for workers performing non-routine tasks …, particularly analytic tasks, while it is absent for workers in routine task intensive jobs. These findings also hold within skill …