TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Snower, Dennis J.
AU  - Görlich, Dennis
        TI  - Multitasking and Wages
        PY  - 2013/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7426
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7426
        AB  - This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium.  Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are distributed unequally among workers across and within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage inequality within groups. Under certain assumptions, it also helps to explain (3) the polarization of the income distribution.  Using a rich German data set covering a 20-year period from 1986 to 2006, we provide empirical support for our model.
        KW  - wage inequality
KW  - multitasking
KW  - tasks
KW  - organizational change
        ER  -