Arbeitspapier
Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career Survey 1979-2006 and prepare trade flow statistics from varying sources. Four main facts emerge: (i) intermediate inputs constitute a major share of imports, and their relevance grows especially in the early decade; (ii) the German workforce increasingly specializes in workplace activities and job requirements that are typically considered non-offshorable, mainly within and not between sectors and occupations; (iii) the imputed activity and job requirement content of German imports grows relatively more intensive in work characteristics typically considered offshorable; and (iv) labour-market institutions at German trade partners are largely unrelated to the changing task content of German imports but German sector-level outcomes exhibit some covariation consistent with faster task offshoring in sectors exposed to lower labour-market tightness. We discuss policy implications of these findings.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5122
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Empirical Studies of Trade
Labor Demand
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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trade in tasks
offshoring
demand for labour
labour force survey
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Becker, Sascha O.
Muendler, Marc-Andreas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Becker, Sascha O.
- Muendler, Marc-Andreas
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2014
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