by new technologies. For this, we implement a binding minimum wage in a task‐based framework, in which tasks are …‐intensive tasks do not increase the aggregate output in general, as the displacement of low‐skill workers counteracts the positive …

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 …

knowledge resulting from the performance of tasks affecting the long-term functioning of firms, such as developing objectives …

more complex tasks, as revealed by the positive relation between the share of offshored jobs and the average cognitive and …

A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns …

skilled labour for headquarter tasks and unskilled workers to conduct a continuum of production tasks. Firms can enter foreign … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade …

This article investigates gender differences in tasks performed at the workplace over a period of 25 years, from 1991 …, we focus both on the content of work form a material perspective, looking concretely at what job tasks are performed by … workplace. Our findings reveal that women tend to perform different tasks compared to their male colleagues within the same job …

effects across skill groups, occupational tasks performed, and gender. Employment reactions to digitalization are most … pronounced for both low- and high-skilled workers, for workers with non-routine tasks, and for female workers. Our results …