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...

IT-Serviceunternehmen müssen in einem äußerst dynamischen Markt bestehen und schnell auf neue Entwicklungen reagieren. Es ist daher von immenser Bedeutung, möglichst früh zu erkennen, welche Anforderungen in Zukunft an ihre Mitarbeiter gestellt werden. Bernhard Arnold untersucht, wie sich...

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...