This paper evaluates how an increase in the supply of skilled labor affects task assignment within and between occupations. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we exploit detailed information about individual workers' tasks from multiple surveys to examine the impact of a twofold rise in...

Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...

I provide evidence that task use at work by men and women in the same occupations is significantly different. The observed difference can account for the within-occupational gender-wage gap that is prevalent in many developed countries. Using data for thirteen European countries, I find that...

I develop an assignment model of occupations with multidimensional heterogeneity in production tasks and worker skills. Tasks are distributed continuously in the skill space, whereas workers have a discrete distribution with a finite number of types. Occupations arise endogenously as bundles of...

Der Arbeitsmarkt ist im Zuge der klimapolitischen Herausforderungen einem erheblichen Transformationsdruck ausgesetzt. Während bestimmte Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen auf dem Weg zu einer klimaneutralen Wertschöpfung an Bedeutung gewinnen (sogenannte Green Jobs), gibt es andere, die absehbar an...