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Chile: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Wage inequality Polarization SkillsBook Chapter
Argentina: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Skills Tasks PolarizationBook Chapter
India: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Skills Tasks Earnings inequalityBook Chapter
Ghana: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Skills Tasks OccupationsBook Chapter
Global divergence in the de-routinization of jobsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
De-routinization Global division of labour Task content of jobsBook Chapter
Introduction: the changing nature of work and inequalityFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Earnings inequality Skills TasksBook
Tasks, skills, and institutions: The changing nature of work and inequalityBOOK IN PRODUCTION – ESTIMATED FOR PUBLICATION IN SUMMER 2023 Developed countries have experienced a polarization in earnings and in employment, namely stronger growth in the earnings and jobs for the most and least skilled workers at the expen...
Inequality Earnings Labour marketWorking Paper
Return migration and entrepreneurship in CameroonIn this paper, we examine the determinants of the entrepreneurial behaviour of returnees to Cameroon based on original survey data from 2012...
Return migration Skills EntrepreneurshipWorking Paper
The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in ChileUsing decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017...
Wage inequality Polarization SkillsWorking Paper
Ban on female migrant workers: Skills-differentiated evidence from Sri LankaThis study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 in a difference-in-difference model...
Labour migration Employment WomenWorking Paper
Changes in occupations and their task content: Implications for employment and inequality in Argentina, 2003–19The aim of this paper is to identify the scope and patterns of the structural transformation as evidenced by changes in occupations and their task content, and their impact on employment, earnings and income distribution in Argentina during the new m...
Skills Tasks PolarizationWorking Paper
Evolution of wage inequality in India (1983–2017): The role of occupational task contentWe examine data for urban workers in the non-agricultural sector across three decades, 1983–2017, and find that earnings inequality increased during 1983–2004, was largely stable during 2004–11, and decreased during 2011–17...
Skills Tasks Earnings inequalityWorking Paper
Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in GhanaIn this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the economy, wit...
Skills Tasks OccupationsWorking Paper
The global distribution of routine and non-routine workStudies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require...
De-routinization Economic development Global division of labourWorking Paper
Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics: Evidence from a half-century analysisThis paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity...
MENA Productivity SkillsBook Chapter
The construction sector in TanzaniaFrom the book: Mining for Change
Construction sector Contractors Land