New paper together with Piotr Lewandowski & Deborah Winkler in The World Economy is out! 🎉 Trading tasks in global value chains widens wage inequality by increasing the routine task intensity gap between offshorable & non-offshorable jobs. Still, GVCs reduce inequality in LMICs 👇

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The role of global value chains for worker tasks and wage inequality

This paper studies the relationship between global value chain (GVC) participation, worker-level routine task intensity (RTI) and wage inequality within countries. Using survey data from 34 countries....