An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace “tasks” between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization—that is, rising employment in the highest and lowest paid occupations. Analyzing this phenomenon within the canonical production function framework is challenging, however, because the assignment of tasks to labor and capital in the canonical model is essentially static. This essay sketches an alternative model of the assignment of skills to tasks based upon comparative advantage, reviews key conceptual and practical challenges that researchers face in bringing the “task approach” to the...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2007.Includes bibliograp...
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks ...
We construct a structural model of on-the-job search in which workers differ in skills along several...
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns t...
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns t...
We propose a novel framework that integrates the task approach" for a more precise production modeli...
This paper investigates some alternative definitions of labor for productivity and demand analysis. ...
This thesis contains three essays on the role of tasks and technology in explaining the trends in re...
This dissertation employs the “Task-Approach” to study how tasks impact different facets of the labo...
This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the ...
I develop an assignment model of occupations with multidimensional heterogeneity in production tasks...
Using original, representative survey data, we document that analytical, routine, and manual job tas...
This paper examines how global integration influences worker behavior regarding skill acquisition, a...
This paper studies the direct and indirect channels through which offshoring affects the domestic sk...
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2007.Includes bibliograp...
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks ...
We construct a structural model of on-the-job search in which workers differ in skills along several...
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns t...
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns t...
We propose a novel framework that integrates the task approach" for a more precise production modeli...
This paper investigates some alternative definitions of labor for productivity and demand analysis. ...
This thesis contains three essays on the role of tasks and technology in explaining the trends in re...
This dissertation employs the “Task-Approach” to study how tasks impact different facets of the labo...
This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the ...
I develop an assignment model of occupations with multidimensional heterogeneity in production tasks...
Using original, representative survey data, we document that analytical, routine, and manual job tas...
This paper examines how global integration influences worker behavior regarding skill acquisition, a...
This paper studies the direct and indirect channels through which offshoring affects the domestic sk...
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2007.Includes bibliograp...
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks ...
We construct a structural model of on-the-job search in which workers differ in skills along several...