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

social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage progression with tenure and also accrue higher returns in firms with a higher …

with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …

with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …

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 … shown across occupations is related to cross-occupation wage levels. We found that the variation in task implementation in …

of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians …), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales). Changes in occupational earnings have had … an equalizing effect, with more substantial gains in favour of lower-skill occupations and also at the top of the skill …

access to high-paying occupations. …

, and, among the foreign born, proficiency in English, are the key factors determining access to high-paying occupations …

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 …

occupations in Canada. We supplement the analysis using Census estimates for the same cohort with source country occupational … immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …