The Task Content of French Jobs

This paper describes the task content of French employment using vacancies posted over the period 2010 to 2019, and employment stocks available in administrative matched employer-employee data and Labor Force Surveys over the same period. We confirm that French jobs feature more non-routine analytical and interpersonal tasks over time, and less routine manual and cognitive tasks. There is no substantial trend in non-routine manual. We further estimate the returns to non-routine tasks (analytical and interpersonal) on posted wages and find that the returns amount to around 2-5\%. We provide measures of task-content by occupation in international classification (ISCO-08) and in French classifications (ROME, PCS, and PCS-ESE)