But you would expect the new one price to favor low cost of living candidates over high cost of living candidates. Especially where candidates in developed countries end up competing with candidates in developing countries. It’s unlikely that a dev shop in Bengaluru is going to start offering remote salaries that would be enticing for a US-based engineer, but the reverse would be completely expected.
> But you would expect the new one price to favor low cost of living candidates over high cost of living candidates.
I'd expect it to provide a greater surplus to lower-expenses candidates, as any common price does. That's not really favoring lower CoL.
> It’s unlikely that a dev shop in Bengaluru is going to start offering remote salaries that would be enticing for a US-based engineer, but the reverse would be completely expected.
Yes, for work that the skills required can easily be sourced anywhere, remote work is going to lead to natural price level much lower than the prices in the highest price segment of geographical segregate markets.
OTOH, where skills demanded are rare and not widely available, normalization of remote work just means its easier for more employers to join the bidding on that restricted set of employees with low transaction costs. So, for commodity labor it drives wages down to the lowest common denominator; for the most elite labor it drives wages up.
Like neoliberals free trade itself, it exacerbates inequalities.
