TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bello, Salvatore Lo
AU  - Puerta, Maria Laura Sanchez
AU  - Winkler, Hernan
        TI  - From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
        PY  - 2019/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12259
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12259
        AB  - There is a growing body of literature exploring the skill content of jobs. This paper contributes to this research by using data on the task content of occupations in developing countries, instead of U.S. data, as most existing studies do. The paper finds that indexes based on U.S. data do not provide a fair approximation of the levels, changes, and drivers of the routine cognitive and nonroutine manual skill content of jobs in developing countries. 
The paper also uncovers three new stylized facts. First, while developed countries tend to have jobs more intensive in nonroutine cognitive skills than developing countries, income (in growth and levels) is not associated with the skill content of jobs once the analysis accounts for other factors. Second, although adoption of information and communications technology is linked to job de-routinization, international trade is an offsetting force. Last, adoption of information and communications technology is correlated with lower employment growth in countries with a high share of occupations that are intensive in routine tasks.
        KW  - skills
KW  - tasks
KW  - economic development
KW  - O*NET
KW  - STEP
        ER  -