Offshoring Medium-Skilled Jobs and Wage Inequality in Task-Based Approach - From Practical to Theoretical Perspectives

Abstract

The last two decades has seen job polarization and the rapid increase in wage inequality emerging as a trend in many developed countries. Among
hypotheses about the inuence of globalization, task oshoring has been receiving high attention from several researchers. Employing the descriptive and critical review as a research method, the paper provides summary, classication and evaluation of both theoretical and empirical literature on oshoring medium-skilled job tasks and wage inequality in the task-based approach. The paper also identies patterns and trends in the literature as well as lessons drawn from previous studies and provides implications for future research.