The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile

Gabriela Zapata-Román
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No wp-2021-48, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using 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. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales).

Keywords: Wage inequality; Polarization; Skills; Tasks; Decomposition methods; Chile; Jobs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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