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  title info:
    title: Tasks, skills, and institutions
    sub title: the changing nature of work and inequality
  name:
    name part: Gradín, Carlos
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lewandowski, Piotr
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Schotte, Simone
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sen, Kunal
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Oxford University Press
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (297 pages)
  abstract: This book provides a unique, comparative assessment on how the nature of work is changing in 11 major developing countries, and the role that these changes play in shaping earnings inequality in these societies. It provides a nuanced and context-sensitive developing-country perspective with an in-depth assessment of national trends in earnings inequality, which are assessed against changes in the supply of higher skilled workers and education premia, on the one hand, and changes in the occupational structure and the remuneration of tasks, on the other, while being mindful of broader macroeconomic trends and institutional developments. We start showing that the common assumption that occupations are identical around the world tends to lead to an overestimation of the non-routine task content of jobs in developing and emerging economies. Then, we use country-specific measures of routine-task intensity, along with the standard O*NET measures, and other innovative ways to push the boundaries of existing research and make the most of the limited information that is available in each of the countries under study. We show that the large changes in the composition of workers by education and job routine-task intensity, which developing countries exhibited in the 2000s and 2010s, generally contributed to higher inequality, ceteris paribus. We also find evidence of job polarization or widening of earnings inequality driven by the evolution of the routine intensity of jobs in several cases. However, changes in the education premium, along institutional factors, seem to explain inequality trends to a larger extent.
  note: edited by Carlos Gradín, Piotr Lewandowski, Simone Schotte and Kunal Sen.
  subject:
    topic: Labor economics
  subject:
    topic: Labor
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Equality
  subject:
    topic: Économie du travail
  subject:
    topic: Travail
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Equality
  subject:
    topic: Labor economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Industry
  classification: HD4901
  classification: 331
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
    name:
      name part: Gradín, Carlos
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in development economics
  identifier: 9780191968464
  identifier: 0191968463
  identifier: 9780192872449
  identifier: 0192872443
  identifier: https://academic.oup.com/book/46710
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 230624
    record change date: 20240201202401.9
    record identifier: in00004770121
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng