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AU - Lewandowski, Piotr
AU - Madon, Karol
AU - Winkler, Deborah
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The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality
PB - The World Bank
KW - Cross-Country Division of Work
KW - Global Value Chains
KW - Globalization
KW - International Survey Data
KW - Private Sector Development, Inequality, Routine Task Intensity
KW - Social Protections and Labor
KW - Value Chain Participation
KW - Wage Inequality
PY - 2023
N2 - This paper studies the relationship between participation in global value chains, worker routine task intensity, and within-country wage inequality. It uses unique survey data from 47 countries across the development spectrum to calculate worker-level, country-specific routine task intensity and combines them with sectoral measures of backward and forward global value chains participation. Higher global value chains participation is associated with more routine-intensive work, specifically among offshorable occupations, especially in countries at lower development levels. The results by broad sectors contrast sharply: higher global value chains participation is linked to a higher routine task intensity in offshorable occupations in the industry but a lower routine task intensity in non-offshorable occupations in business services. Higher worker-level routine task intensity is strongly associated with lower wages, so global value chains participation indirectly widens the within-country wage inequality through this routine task intensity channel. At the same time, global value chains participation directly contributes to reduced wage inequality, except for the richest countries. Overall, this analysis finds that global value chains participation reduces wage inequality in most low- and middle-income countries that receive offshored jobs but widens wage inequality in high-income countries that offshore jobs
CY - Washington, D.C
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -