Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment
(2016) In Review of International Economics 24(4). p.717-736- Abstract
- Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm’s choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to complete. Within the structure of our model, firms skew employment toward occupations engaged in more complex tasks. Moreover, the distribution of employment is more skewed for more globalized firms, while it is less skewed for larger firms. These results are consistent with our empirical findings in Davidson, et al (2015).
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- author
- Davidson, Carl ; Heyman, Fredrik LU ; Matusz, Steven ; Sjöholm, Fredrik LU and Zhu, Susan Chun
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-09
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Employment, Tasks, Firms, Globalization
- in
- Review of International Economics
- volume
- 24
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 20 pages
- publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84982808409
- wos:000380959700004
- ISSN
- 1467-9396
- DOI
- 10.1111/roie.12235
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 044cd9d0-45db-4b7d-a1aa-68e01231fcde (old id 8515597)
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- 2016-04-01 14:10:27
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