From Tasks to Riches: A Task-Based Approach to the Determinants of Wages

• Main Authors: Daguman, Brian, Baradas, Samantha Victoria Abordo, Co, Aileen Abigail D., Delos Santos, Martha Louise
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials; International and Comparative Labor Relations; Labor Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/res_aki/109; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/res_aki/article/1100/viewcontent/From_Tasks_to_Riches.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

In most written literature on labor, wages are determined by labor market supply and demand factors. With this, what a person can control to increase their wages is to focus on their skill endowments, particularly honing skills. These skills this paper will be focusing on are those occupational-spec...