This paper addresses two questions namely, first, the extent to which the very participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) has penalised labour as a globally insourced production input, and, second, what happened to between-occupation functional inequality. We combine input-output (I-O) tables...

Where the industrial age led to a global division of labor in manufacturing, the information age expands that global division into services. Once theorized as nontradable, services now join goods in the global marketplace, allowing workers in developing countries to participate in lucrative...