High-Skill Task

AKA: White Collar Work, High-Skill Job.
Context:
- It can be a task of a High-Skill Job (performed by high-skill worker).
Example(s):
- Teaching Task.
- Software Programming Task.
- Surgery Task.
- Design Task.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- a Medium-Skill Task.
- Low-Skill Task such as: Data Entry Task, Cashiering Task, and a Taxi Driving Task.
See: Education Level, Methodology, Job.

References

(2006_TradingTasks) ⇒ Gene M. Grossman, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. (2006). “Trading Tasks: a simple theory of offshoring.” In: National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge, 95(8).
- QUOTE: We conceptualize the production process in terms of tasks. Each task requires the input of some factor of production. Some tasks can be performed by workers who have relatively little education or training, while others must be performed by workers who have greater skills. We refer to the former as “L-tasks” and the latter as “H-tasks.” There may be still other tasks that are performed by other factors of production; for example, capital, or additional categories of labor. … Much of the recent public debate about offshoring concerns the relocation of white-collar jobs. The media has identified many tasks requiring reasonably high levels of skill that formerly were the sole providence of the advanced economies but now are being performed offshore. For example, workers in India are reported to be reading x-rays (Pollak, 2003), developing software (Thurm, 2004), preparing tax forms (Robertson et al., 2005), and even performing heart surgery on American patients (Baker et al., 2006). In this section, we extend our model to include trade in such tasks.