Job Design and Skill Development in the Workplace☆

Giovanni Russo

A chapter in Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets, 2017, vol. 45, pp 409-445 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between job complexity and skill development of adult workers in Europe using the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs Survey.1The results suggest that challenging workplaces in which jobs are designed to include complex tasks that place high demands on workers’ skills also stimulate skill development. Increasing the degree of job complexity has positive and robust effects on the degree of skill development. Skill development is also positively linked to job tenure. The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace characteristics for adult workers’ skill development.

Keywords: Job tasks; skill development; job design; workplace learning; J24; J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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