workers in jobs intensive in numerical tasks – relative to reading tasks – perform relatively better in the numeracy section … hold mainly for simple tasks, suggesting that our findings are not fully generated by the sorting of workers across jobs. A …

theoretical and an empirical point of view. Given that jobs can be broken down into tasks, namely units of work activities … differences in the intensity with which tasks are implemented. We then investigate whether the variety in task implementation …

I develop an assignment model of occupations with multidimensional heterogeneity in production tasks and worker skills …. Tasks are distributed continuously in the skill space, whereas workers have a discrete distribution with a finite number of … types. Occupations arise endogenously as bundles of tasks optimally assigned to a type of worker. The model allows us to …

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

), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales). Changes in occupational earnings have had …

We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries … models suggest that low-educated workers in jobs involving a particular set of basic tasks - say, in numeric rather than … reading or ICT tasks - obtain 10% of one standard deviation higher scores in the domain of the PIAAC assessment most related …