The Geography of Job Tasks

We thank Reid Gahan, Billy Huang, and Ryan Kobler for outstanding research assistance and Barbara Nordin for excellent editorial assistance. We thank seminar participants at the 2019 Society of Labor Economists conference, the 2019 Urban Economics Association conference, the UNL labor reading group, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the 2022 ASSA annual meetings, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Adrien Bilal, Jeffrey Lin, and Gregor Schubert for valuable feedback. We thank the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and the Russell Sage Foundation (grant #92-18-05) for financial support. Sotelo thanks the IES at Princeton for its hospitality during part of this research. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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