Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data (English)

The shift from routine work to nonroutine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets globally, but there is little evidence on the extent to which tasks differ among workers performing the same jobs in different countries. This paper constructs survey-based measures of routine task intensity (RTI) of jobs consistent with those based on the U.S. O-NET database for workers in 47 countries. It confirms substantial cross-country differences in the...
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Piotr Lewandowski; Park,Albert Francis; Hardy,Wojciech Stefan; Du,Yang; Saier Wu.

Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099510212112342247

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