@article{Lanz:332183,
      recid = {332183},
      author = {Lanz, Rainer and Miroudot, Sébastien and Nordås, Hildegunn  Kyvik},
      title = {Does fragmentation of production imply fragmentation of  jobs?},
      address = {2012},
      pages = {17},
      year = {2012},
      note = {Presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Geneva, Switzerland},
      abstract = {The possibility of deepening international specialization  through trade in tasks has raised concerns about jobs and  earnings in occupations hitherto sheltered from  international competition. Trade in tasks cannot be  measured directly. It is, however possible study how recent  developments in international trade patterns are associated  with changes in the task content of local production. From  a labour market point of view this is the interesting  question. The task content of goods and services is  estimated by combining information from the O*Net database  on the importance of a set of 41 tasks for a large number  of occupations and information on employment by occupation  and industry. The study shows that tasks that can be  digitised and offshored are often complementary to tasks  that cannot. We therefore cluster tasks that tend to be  performed together across occupations and analyse how  changes in the content of these task clusters are  associated with international trade. Import penetration in  business services is associated with a shift in local task  content from information and communication related tasks  towards tasks related to handling machinery and equipment,  while import penetration of other services has exactly the  opposite effect. It appears that offshoring of business  services complements manufacturing activities while  offshoring of other services complements local  information-intensive tasks.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332183},
}