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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
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
Jobs, earnings, and routine-task occupational change in times of revolution: The Tunisian perspectiveIn this paper we investigate the links between wage inequality and the changing nature of jobs in a revolution context...
Routinization Wage inequality TasksWorking 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
Polarization in the South African labour market: Economy-wide scenariosTechnical change impacts both the employment intensity of production and the composition of occupations and skills of employment...
Labour market Polarization Computable general equilibriumWorking 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
Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South AfricaEarnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world...
Inequality Minimum wage Recentered influence functionWorking Paper
Labour market polarization in South Africa: A decomposition analysisThere is evidence from developed countries that technical change affects not only the employment intensity of production, but also the occupational composition of employment...
Decomposition Labour market Polarization