The Geography of Job Tasks

Enghin Atalay, Sebastian Sotelo and Daniel Tannenbaum

No 682, Working Papers from Research Seminar in International Economics, University of Michigan

Abstract: We present new facts about the geography of work using online job ads and introduce new measures of job tasks, technology requirements, and the degree of specialization within firms or occupations. We show that the (i) intensity of interactive and analytic tasks, (ii) technological requirements, and (iii) task specialization all increase with city size. The gradient for tasks and technologies is steeper for jobs requiring a college degree. We show that these facts help account for the urban wage premium, both in aggregate and across skill groups.

Keywords: geography; job tasks; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J24 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63 pages
Date: 2021-03-22
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-lma, nep-tid and nep-ure
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