In this paper, I estimate the impact of service offshoring on the real wages of U.S. workers by controlling for workers …' skill levels and the offshoring susceptibility of different tasks. Matching individual-level wage data with input … results from a Mincerian wage regression indicate that within skill groups, the impact of service offshoring on real wages …

, respectively. Offshoring to these origins has opposing effects on German wages with respect to the relative task complexity of jobs …: While offshoring to the West puts pressure on the wages of complex jobs and increases the wages of simple jobs, offshoring …This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially …

advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of …We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either …

, 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 …

Occupational Information Network to explore the relevance of these four frameworks for explaining earnings inequality between 2000 … by minimum wages, without which we expect wage growth there would have resembled the weaker growth of the middle of the …

theoretical and an empirical point of view. Given that jobs can be broken down into tasks, namely units of work activities … producing output, we empirically test whether part of the observed variation in wages across similar individuals is related to … differences in the intensity with which tasks are implemented. We then investigate whether the variety in task implementation …

The impact of offshoring on domestic jobs is more complicated than it first appears. In the standard narrative …, offshoring production is thought to harm domestic workers by providing cheap alternative sources of labor. However, while … offshoring may directly displace domestic workers, the resulting foreign market access and lower production costs allow domestic …