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 …

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

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 …