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

Campos-Gonzalez, Jorge - 2025

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...

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Life-cycle wage growth and firm productivity in developed and developing economics

Holzheu, Kerstin; Munoz-Morales, Juan - 2025

Life-cycle wage growth rates vary significantly across countries. In this paper, we examine the role of the local distribution of firm productivity in shaping life-cycle wage profiles by introducing a random search model that disentangles the effects of firm productivity distribution, on-the-job...

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Global divergence in the de-routinization of jobs

Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2023

This study introduces a methodology to estimate the economy-specific task content of occupations across economies at different income levels. Combining these with employment data in 87 economies, the results show that occupations in low- and middle-income economies are more routine-intensive...

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Overeducation and wages : the role of cognitive skills and personality traits

Palczyńska, Marta - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111

This article investigates the extent to which personality traits and cognitive skills can be seen as potential determinants of overeducation, and can explain the overeducation wage penalty. Using a representative survey of the Polish working-age population with well-established measures of...

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Does learning matter for wages in Korea? : international comparison of wage returns to adult education and training

Park, Yoonsoo - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 2, pp. 29-44

This study compares the wage equation in Korea to those in other countries, focusing on the wage returns to adult education and training (AET) participation. It is found that the wage compensation structure in Korea is associated mainly with job characteristics such as tenure and workplace size...

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Short-term earnings mobility in the Canadian and German context : the role of cognitive skills

Pullman, Ashley; Gauly, Britta; Lechner, Clemens - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

It is well-established that human capital contributes to unequal levels of earnings mobility. Individuals with higher levels of human capital, typically measured through education, earn more on average and are privy to greater levels of upward change over time. Nevertheless, other factors may...

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Trends in employment and wages of female and male workers in India : a task-content-of-occupations approach

Sharma, Shruti - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 39 (2022) 1, pp. 169-199

This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male workers in the Indian labor market from 1994 to 2017. Workers are classified into four main occupational categories: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual,...

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Creative India : tapping the full potential

Kukreja, Prateek; Puri, Havishaye; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2022

India's creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable … measure on the size of India's creative economy, explores the many challenges faced by the creative industries, and provides … recommendations to make India one of the most creative societies in the world. India's creative economy-measured by the number of …

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Workers, workplaces, sorting, and wage dispersion in Mexico

Pérez Pérez, Jorge; Nuño-Ledesma, José G. - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 23 (2024) 1, pp. 311-332

Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico’s private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the underlying factors behind salary dispersion underwent significant shifts nationally and regionally. We analyze a matched employer-employee dataset comprising the near-universe of...

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Earnings volatility in Brazil (2012-2023)

Portella, Alysson; Gonçalves, Solange Ledi; Souza, … - 2025

This article provides a comprehensive analysis of labor earnings volatility in Brazil between 2012 and 2023. During this period, Brazil's economy experienced intense economic growth followed by large recessions, allowing us to assess changes in volatility over the business cycle. In addition,...

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