We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data … regression-based decompositions to quantify the contribution of changes in the returns to tasks to overall changes in the wage … distribution from 1978 to 2006. We find that changes in the returns to tasks explain up to half of the increase in wage inequality …

abstract and manual task prices. I propose a new method, which exploits the sorting of workers into tasks and their associated …

larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover, workers … in larger establishments rely more on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to perform these tasks …

skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and job skill requirements of over 120,000 individuals across 28 … countries, we document that workers' skills better match their jobs' skill requirements in higher-income countries. To quantify …

. This descriptive evidence is robust to many alternative measures for capital and skills. Our estimates imply that capital …