The impact on the skill premium of the task content of jobs: Evidence from online job ads for Chile 2009 – 2018

Jorge Campos-Gonzalez ()

Estudios de Economia, 2025, vol. 52, issue 1 Year 2025, 133-189

Abstract: We evaluate the influence on the skill premium of the task content of jobs by exploiting the text data from online job ads covering 2009-2018 (over 189,000 ads) published by one of the leading Chilean online job portals (www.trabajando.com). Our analysis tests the expected complementarity between skilled labour, non-routine cognitive (analytical and interactive), and routine cognitive tasks. Our results show weak evidence of the influence on the skill premium of our task-related measures. Nevertheless, some implications arise from this apparent decrease in the importance of the tasks skilled workers typically perform, such as inefficient educational investment or unwanted changes in the occupational ladder.

Keywords: Task content; Skill premium; Cognitive tasks; Routinisation; Technological change; Skilled labour. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J23 J24 J31 O15 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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