Comparative sociologists have long considered occupations to be a key source of inequality. However, data constraints make comparative research on two of the more important contemporary drivers of occupational stratification – globalization and technological change – relatively scarce. This article introduces a new dataset on occupational ‘routine task intensity’ (RTI) and ‘offshorability’ (OFFS) for use with the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). To produce these data, we recoded 23 country-specific occupational schemes (74 LIS country-years) to the two-digit ISCO-88 scheme. When combined with the handful of LIS countries already reporting their occupations in ISCO-88, we produce individual level RTI and OFFS scores for 38 LIS countries and 160 LIS country-years. To assess the validity of these recodes, we compare average labor-income ratios predicted by recoded ISCO-88 occupational categories to those predicted by reported ISCO-88 occupational categories within countries that transitioned from country-specific to ISCO-88 codes over time. To assess the utility of these RTI and OFFS scores and advance the literature on income polarization, we analyze their association with work hours and labor incomes in the global North and South. Both covariates correlate with work hours in ways that are consistent with previous research and additional theoretical considerations. Moreover, we show that both RTI and OFFS contribute to income polarization directly in the North, but not in the South. This article generates a public good data infrastructure that will be of use to a wide variety of social scientists, and brings new evidence to bear on the question of income polarization in rich democracies.

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工作任务以及收入和就业的比较结构：LIS 的日常任务强度和离岸能力*

比较社会学家长期以来一直认为职业是不平等的主要来源。然而，数据限制使得对当代职业分层的两个更重要的驱动因素——全球化和技术变革——的比较研究相对稀缺。本文介绍了用于卢森堡收入研究 (LIS) 的关于职业“常规任务强度”(RTI) 和“离岸能力”(OFFS) 的新数据集。为了产生这些数据，我们将 23 个国家特定的职业计划（74 LIS 国家年）重新编码为两位数的 ISCO-88 计划。结合少数已在 ISCO-88 中报告其职业的 LIS 国家，我们为 38 个 LIS 国家和 160 个 LIS 国家年生成了个人水平的 RTI 和 OFFS 分数。为了评估这些重新编码的有效性，我们将重新编码的 ISCO-88 职业类别预测的平均劳动收入比率与报告的 ISCO-88 职业类别预测的比率进行比较，这些比率随着时间的推移从特定国家代码过渡到 ISCO-88 代码的国家。为了评估这些 RTI 和 OFFS 分数的效用并推进有关收入两极分化的文献，我们分析了它们与全球南北工作时间和劳动收入的关系。两个协变量都以与先前研究和其他理论考虑一致的方式与工作时间相关联。此外，我们表明 RTI 和 OFFS 都直接导致北方的收入两极分化，但在南方没有。本文生成了一个公共产品数据基础设施，可供各种社会科学家使用，