variability in terms of tasks content, methods of work and tools used at work. Overall, the comparative component contributes to … analysed national employment structures focusing on tasks profile as well as on the employment distribution by task … structures by tasks content terciles emerges, especially once compared across occupational groups. The task content of jobs …

the taxonomy of tasks proposed by Bisello and Fernández-Macías (2016), this work tries to better understand whether … changes in the average intensity of tasks performance are the result of changes in the shares of employment across jobs, or … to the rest, but this is in contrast with a decline in the amount of social tasks people actually do in those (and other …

-routine manual tasks, which are difficult to be replaced by information technologies, thereby contributing to the polarization of the …-routine cognitive tasks, and by decreasing the compensation for routine and non-routine manual tasks. The third essay exploits regional …

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 …

A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that …