Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020
The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U … nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, but needs to be augmented to illuminate the recent convexification of education returns … explain 75 percent of the rise of U.S. wage inequality from 1980 to 2000 as compared to 38 percent for 2000 to 2017 …