Abstract  2

Acknowledgements  3

Executive summary  4

1. Introduction  5

2. Literature review  7

3. Data  11

4. Task dimensions and their cross-country stability  14

5. Decomposing task variation: occupation, industry and national context  20

6. The distribution of tasks across countries  27

6.1. The geography of tasks: compositional versus structural sources of cross-country variation  28

6.2. A comparison of some significant occupational profiles across countries  34

7. Discussion and conclusions  37

References  40

List of figures  43

List of tables  44

Annexes  45