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 …

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 to …

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 …

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital …

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital …

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in … occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our … that individuals move to occupations with similar task requirements and that the distance of moves declines with time in …