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| Titre : | Job Tasks and Wages in Developed Countries: Evidence from PIAAC (2020) |
| Auteurs : | Sara de la Rica ; Lucas Gortazar ; Piotr Lewandowski |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Labour economics (vol. 65, August 2020) |
| Article en page(s) : | Article 101845 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Organisme Cité PIAAC - Programme for the International Assessment of Adult CompetenciesThésaurus CEREQ TACHE ; SALAIRE ; COMPARAISON INTERNATIONALE ; BELGIQUE ; CHILI ; REPUBLIQUE TCHEQUE ; DANEMARK ; ESPAGNE ; FRANCE ; ROYAUME UNI ; GRECE ; ITALIE ; JAPON ; COREE DU SUD ; LITUANIE ; PAYS BAS ; NORVEGE ; NOUVELLE ZELANDE ; POLOGNE ; SLOVAQUIE ; SLOVENIE ; ETATS UNIS |
| Résumé : | This paper addresses the empirical relationship between job tasks and wages for a harmonised sample of 19 developed countries. We do so by using worker-level PIAAC data to account for task heterogeneity within occupations. Our contribution is threefold: First, we compute abstract, routine and manual task measures that are found to be well-validated visa-vis previous research. Second, we estimate task prices, and find that a one-standard-deviation increase in abstract tasks is related to a 3.3-log-point wage premium, whereas there is a 2.6 to 2.9-log-point wage penalty for each standard deviation of routine (manual) tasks. Development factors and labour market institutions, particularly union coverage and strictness of employment protection legislation, seem to play a role in the differences in all three task prices. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101845 |
