Technology is the driver of labor allocation across sectors and occupations. Is the impact of technological change on developing countries similar to its impact on developed countries? Will developing countries follow the same development path that developed economies have taken? Our approach...

The tasks workers perform on the job are informative about the direction and the impact of technological change. We harmonize occupational task content measures between two worker-level surveys, which separately cover developing and developed countries. Developing countries use routine-cognitive...

Reallocation of inputs in production and substitution across them, are mechanisms through which the economy adjusts to changes in relative efficiency in production across sectors. When input productivity moves along relative prices, cost shares are constant and the input output structure of the...