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Snower, Dennis J.; Goerlich, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...

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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our …

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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be …

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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

equilibrium of forces that glue tasks together or unbundle them. Communication costs are the main force for clustering or gluing … together tasks; comparative advantage stimulates unbundling and specialisation. The estimates suggest that on average the … it explains a substantial part of the increase in offshoring tasks abroad. …

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Cities, Tasks and Skills

Kok, Suzanne; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … others require proximity. We construct a measure of task connectivity to investigate which tasks are more likely to require … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher …

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Skilled Labor Supply, IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability

Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 local labor markets in France, from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Although workers in more...

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...

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