From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development (English)

There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not provide a fair approximation of the levels, changes, and drivers of the routine cognitive and nonroutine manual skill content of jobs in developing countries...

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Lo Bello,Salvatore;

Sanchez Puerta,Maria Laura;

Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge;
Document Date
2019/02/25
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8758
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2019/02/25
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
Keywords
female labor force participation

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Lo Bello,Salvatore; Sanchez Puerta,Maria Laura; Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge.

From Ghana to America : The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8758 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/460301551120159026

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