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How Workers' Skills Are Used at Work: A Multi-Country Comparison with PIAAC

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  • Stefania Borelli

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche, Sapienza-Università di Roma)

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This paper aims to present the comparison between two datasets, O*NET and PIAAC. Most of the task-based empirical papers in the literature use the O*NET database from the US Department of Labor. This survey assigns values summarizing the importance of several di erent abilities to each of 812 Occupations (according to the Standard Occupation Classication, SOC). In the literature, the more or less implicit assumption is that the task structure of jobs does not differ by country characteristics (i.e. there is the same task-composition of occupations in Italy and in the United States). PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2013) is the most comprehensive international survey on adult (aged 16 to 65) skills ever undertaken. Both datasets adopt a Job Requirement Approach (JRA) methodology and so it's possible to make an useful comparison. The comparison between PIAAC and O*NET, using data on the US workers, shows a correlation between variables never less than 0.7 and then provide evidence of the validity of the first dataset to describe the task content of occupations.

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  • Stefania Borelli, 2016. "How Workers' Skills Are Used at Work: A Multi-Country Comparison with PIAAC," Working Papers 5/16, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.
    • Handle: RePEc:saq:wpaper:5/16
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    1. Tommaso AGASISTI & Geraint JOHNES & Marco PACCAGNELLA, 2021. "Tasks, occupations and wages in OECD countries," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 160(1), pages 85-112, March.
    2. Stefania Borelli & Giuseppe De Arcangelis, 2016. "Migration, Labor Tasks and Production Structure in Europe," Working Papers 4/16, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.

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    Keywords

    job tasks; Occupational Network Information (O*NET); OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access

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