Global Value Chains and Wages: Multi-Country Evidence from Linked Worker-Industry Data

Parteka, Aleksandra; Wolszczak‐Derlacz, Joanna

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“…To our knowledge, current research on these concepts using LIS data operationalize them in much cruder ways on limited samples (e.g. Mueller et al, 2015;Parteka and Wolszczak-Derlacz, 2016). Both RTI and OFFS are correlated with work hours and labor incomes in ways that are consistent with existing theory.…”

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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment: Routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS*

Mahutga

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Roberts

2018

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification-globalization and technological change-relatively scarce. This article introduces a new dataset on occupational 'routine task intensity' (RTI) and 'offshorability' (OFFS) for use with the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). To produce these data, we recoded 23 country-specific occupational schemes (74 LIS countryyears) to the two-digit ISCO-88 scheme. When combined with the handful of LIS countries already reporting their occupations in ISCO-88, we produce individual level RTI and OFFS scores for 38 LIS countries and 160 LIS country-years. To assess the validity of these recodes, we compare average labor-income ratios predicted by recoded ISCO-88 occupational categories to those predicted by reported ISCO-88 occupational categories within countries that transitioned from country-specific to ISCO-88 codes over time. To assess the utility of these RTI and OFFS scores and advance the literature on income polarization, we analyze their association with work hours and labor incomes in the global North and South. Both covariates correlate with work hours in ways that are consistent with previous research and additional theoretical considerations. Moreover, we show that both RTI and OFFS contribute to income polarization directly in the North, but not in the South. This article generates a public good data infrastructure that will be of use to a wide variety of social scientists, and brings new evidence to bear on the question of income polarization in rich democracies.

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Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment: Routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS*

Mahutga

Curran

Roberts

2018

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…Growing industrial interdependence across countries due to the offshoring of production appears to have come at a cost to workers in Europe and the United States, especially those who perform more routine tasks, who tend to be less well educated. However, here too, the effects that have been identified empirically appear to be quite modest (Parteka and Wolszczak-Derlacz 2016).…”

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Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay

Ravallion

2018

Journal of Economic Literature

146

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As normally measured, “global inequality” is the relative inequality of incomes found among all people in the world no matter where they live. Francois Bourguignon and Branko Milanovic have written insightful and timely books on global inequality, emphasizing the role of globalization. The books are complementary: Milanovic provides an ambitious broad-brush picture, with some intriguing hypotheses on the processes at work; Bourguignon provides a deep and suitably qualified economic analysis. This paper questions the thesis of both books—that globalization has been a major driving force of inequality between or within countries. The paper also questions the robustness of the evidence for declining global inequality, and notes some conceptual limitations of standard measures in capturing the concerns of many observers in the ongoing debates about globalization and the policy responses. ( JEL D31, D63, E25, F61, F63)

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“…Similarly, Szymczak et al (2019) use the CEECs sample to show how the position of industries in the production chain affects wages. Parteka and Wolszczak-Derlacz (2019), constructing a cross-sectional dataset on nine European countries and the United States, is the work most resembling the present paper in terms of data and methodology. Those results suggested that growing cross-border industrial interdependence (measured as the foreign share in the industry's value added) decreases the wages of some workers, namely those who perform more routine tasks and are less well educated.…”

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Wage response to global production links: evidence for workers from 28 European countries (2005–2014)

Parteka

Wolszczak‐Derlacz

2020

Rev World Econ

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Using rich individual level data on workers from 28 European countries, this study provides the first so extensive cross-country assessment of wage response to global production links within GVC in the period 2005–2014. Unlike the other studies, the authors (i) address the importance of backward linkages in globally integrated production structures (capturing imports of goods and services needed in any stage of the production of the final product); (ii) measure occupational task profile of workers with country-specific indices of routinisation; (iii) compare the impact of global production links on wages between workers from Western, Central-Eastern and Southern Europe; employed in manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors; (iv) account for direct and indirect dependence on GVC imports from developing and high income countries. The study takes into account the potential endogeneity issues. The results suggest that global import intensity of production exhibits negative pressure on wages in Europe. This effect concerns mainly workers from Western Europe employed in manufacturing and is driven by production links with non-high income countries but our counterfactual estimates suggest that the effect is economically small.

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Global Value Chains and Wages: Multi-Country Evidence from Linked Worker-Industry Data

Cited by 15 publications

References 91 publications

Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment: Routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS*

Job tasks and the comparative structure of income and employment: Routine task intensity and offshorability for the LIS*

Inequality and Globalization: A Review Essay

Wage response to global production links: evidence for workers from 28 European countries (2005–2014)

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