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What do workers do? Measuring the intensity and market value of tasks in jobs ...
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What do workers do? Measuring the intensity and market value of tasks in jobs ...
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Abstract:
Do occupational titles refer to the same work activities, as assumed in occupational classifications? Up to now, no large-scale empirical testing of this assumption has been conducted. Using the task descriptions provided for all ISCO 4-digit occupations, the frequency of task implementation was tested using respondents in the multi-country, multilingual WageIndicator web survey on work and wages in 13 countries. The web survey targets individuals in the labour force. Depending on their self-selected occupation, the relevant task list was shown and respondents were asked to tick on a 5-point scale how often they performed each task. For 427 occupations (ISCO-08 4-digits) in total 3,237 occupation-specific tasks were available. Between November 2013 and August 2015 33,678 respondents had completed the tasks questions for their respective occupations. The results show that task measurement is feasible because it can generate sufficient observations to allow for analysis for a range of detailed, 4-digit ...
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Keyword:
measurement; occupations; tasks
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3897473 https://zenodo.org/record/3897473
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