Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment

Carl Davidson, Fredrik Heyman, Steven Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm and Susan Chun Zhu ()
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Carl Davidson: Michigan State University

No 1089, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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).

Keywords: Occupational mix; Globalization; Firms; Tasks; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F16 F66 L22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2015-10-13
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Journal Article: Global Engagement, Complex Tasks and the Distribution of Occupational Employment (2016)
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