repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a larger spectrum of tasks. We then explore how the routine intensity of … jobs affects the urban wage premium. We find that the urban wage premium is higher for workers performing non-routine tasks …, particularly analytic tasks, while it is absent for workers in routine task intensive jobs. These findings also hold within skill …

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 …

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

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 …