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

There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content ofjobs. This article contributes to this research by using data on thetask content of occupations from developing countries, instead of US data as most existing studies do. It finds that US-based indexes do not provide a fair approximation of the levels, changes and drivers of the routine cognitive and non-routine manual skill content of jobs in developing countries. The authors also...

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Lo Bello,Salvatore;

Sanchez Puerta,Maria Laura;

Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge;
Document Date
2019/01/31
Document Type
Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
134251
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2019/03/04
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). Jobs working paper|issue no. 23 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/635051551724745132

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