, as a technology platform, can automate tasks previously performed by labor or create new tasks and activities in which … on creating new tasks where labor can be productively employed. The consequences of this choice have been stagnating … labor demand, declining labor share in national income, rising inequality and lower productivity growth. The current …

allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of production. Automation, which enables capital to replace labor in … tasks it was previously engaged in, shifts the task content of production against labor because of a displacement effect. As … productivity. The effects of automation are counterbalanced by the creation of new tasks in which labor has a comparative advantage …

works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

explanation is at odds with the sequence of observed facts. We propose and model an alternative scenario in which offshoring … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower … both higher inequality and higher unemployment; 3) The implementation of the reform reduces unemployment, but also …

products and firms' use of imports in production (offshoring). We use Finnish worker-firm data merged with product-level trade … occupations. An increase in import competition has larger negative effects than an increase in offshoring. Production workers …

determination of relative wages in developing countries. The model shows that offshoring through foreign direct investment …We present a global production sharing model that integrates the organizational choices of offshoring into the … ownership structure, the skill upgrading in exports, and the evolution of wage inequality from 1992 to 2008 in China …

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We … within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage … inequality within groups. Under certain assumptions, it also helps to explain (3) the polarization of the income distribution …

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … executing nonroutine abstract tasks, and substitutes for unskilled workers in performing routine tasks. When we use our …

. By analysing the profile of the job tasks and skill needs of Greek homeworkers, the paper also shows marked deviations in … standardised and moderate ICT tasks and to rely more on social serving tasks. The paper highlights that there is significant scope …

We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries … models suggest that low-educated workers in jobs involving a particular set of basic tasks - say, in numeric rather than … reading or ICT tasks - obtain 10% of one standard deviation higher scores in the domain of the PIAAC assessment most related …