Tasks, occupations and wages in OECD countries

Agasisti, Tommaso and Johnes, Geraint and Paccagnella, Marco (2021) Tasks, occupations and wages in OECD countries. International Labour Review, 160 (1). pp. 85-112. ISSN 0020-7780

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Abstract

This paper investigates the relationships between earnings, human capital, and job tasks, exploiting internationally comparable information from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills. We use the theoretical framework presented in Autor and Handel (2013) and extend their empirical results to 20 OECD countries. Our data allow for a richer characterisation of worker’s human capital, by including both educational attainment and a measure of cognitive skills. We are able to confirm the predictive power of job tasks in explaining wage differences both between and within occupations, and to provide empirical support for the model’s prediction in the vast majority of countries.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

International Labour Review

Additional Information:

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Agasisti, T., Johnes, G. and Paccagnella, M. (2021), Tasks, occupations and wages in OECD countries. International Labour Review, 160, 1, 2021 doi: 10.1111/ilr.12169 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ilr.12169 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.

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Subjects:

?? earningsoccupationsskillstaskseconomics, econometrics and finance(all)organizational behavior and human resource managementstrategy and managementmanagement of technology and innovationj24j31 ??

Departments:

Lancaster University Management School > Economics

ID Code:

143481

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Deposited On:

22 Apr 2020 09:15

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

17 Feb 2024 00:58

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/143481