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The Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality

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dc.contributor.authorLewandowski, Piotr
dc.contributor.authorMadoń, Karol
dc.contributor.authorWinkler, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-09T17:10:39Z
dc.date.available2023-05-09T17:10:39Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-09
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099706205022399067/IDU080e5b8dd009680418b0b9600529297fdee90
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10433
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39797
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Papers; 10433
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectROUTINE TASK INTENSITY
dc.subjectGLOBAL VALUE CHAINS
dc.subjectGLOBALIZATION
dc.subjectCROSS-COUNTRY DIVISION OF WORK
dc.subjectWAGE INEQUALITY
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL SURVEY DATA
dc.subjectVALUE CHAIN PARTICIPATION
dc.titleThe Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequalityen
dc.typeWorking Paper
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okr.crossref.titleThe Role of Global Value Chains for Worker Tasks and Wage Inequality
okr.date.disclosure2023-05-02
okr.date.lastmodified2023-05-02T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePolicy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099706205022399067/IDU080e5b8dd009680418b0b9600529297fdee90
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okr.identifier.docmidIDU-80e5b8dd-0968-418b-b960-529297fdee90
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10433
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10433
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34054461
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34054461
okr.identifier.reportWPS10433
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okr.sectorTrade
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Wages, Compensation & Benefits
okr.topicPrivate Sector Development::Global Value Chains and Business Clustering
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::Globalization and Financial Integration
okr.unitEFI-MTI-TIC-Trade and RI (ETIRI)
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