How Workers' Skills Are Used at Work: A Multi-Country Comparison with PIAAC

Stefania Borelli ()
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Stefania Borelli: Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, Sapienza-Università di Roma

No 5/16, Working Papers from Sapienza University of Rome, DISS

Abstract: This paper aims to present the comparison between two datasets, O*NET and PIAAC. Most of the task-based empirical papers in the literature use the O*NET database from the US Department of Labor. This survey assigns values summarizing the importance of several di erent abilities to each of 812 Occupations (according to the Standard Occupation Classication, SOC). In the literature, the more or less implicit assumption is that the task structure of jobs does not differ by country characteristics (i.e. there is the same task-composition of occupations in Italy and in the United States). PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2013) is the most comprehensive international survey on adult (aged 16 to 65) skills ever undertaken. Both datasets adopt a Job Requirement Approach (JRA) methodology and so it's possible to make an useful comparison. The comparison between PIAAC and O*NET, using data on the US workers, shows a correlation between variables never less than 0.7 and then provide evidence of the validity of the first dataset to describe the task content of occupations.

Keywords: job tasks; Occupational Network Information (O*NET); OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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