The global distribution of routine and non-routine work

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park and Simone Schotte

No wp-2020-75, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Studies 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. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task intensity of occupations based on survey data collected in 46 low-, middle-, and high-income countries. We find that within the same occupation jobs in low- and middle-income countries are more routine intensive than in high-income countries.

Keywords: De-routinization; Economic development; Global division of labour; Routine employment; Task content of jobs; Tasks; Skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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