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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 …
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We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
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refugees changed the tasks performed by native workers and the amount of capital used by firms in Turkey. Despite the … natives' task complexity, reducing the intensity of manual tasks, and raising the intensity of abstract, routine and ICT tasks … that tasks provided by Syrian refugees are substitutes for natives' manual tasks and firms' capital, and complementary to …
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We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too … variety of applications. For instance, the automation of low-complexity tasks tends to reinforce labor market segmentation …
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employment growth in countries with a high share of occupations that are intensive in routine tasks. …
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We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...
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employment growth in countries with a high share of occupations that are intensive in routine tasks …
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Treating occupations as bundles of tasks rather than discrete categories is the central idea upon which the "task … intensive an occupation is in performing different tasks (e.g. non-routine analytical, non-routine interpersonal, non …
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