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Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales : The Role of Structural Transformation

Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

concentration. We document that the Herfindhahl index of local employment concentration, measured at the county-by-NAICS six … employment concentration trends is attributable to the structural transformation of U.S. economic activity: both sales and … employment concentration rose within industry-by-county cells; but reallocation of sales and employment from relatively …

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A New Interpretation of Productivity Growth Dynamics in the Pre-Pandemic and Pandemic Era U.S. Economy, 1950-2022

Gordon, Robert J.; Sayed, Hassan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4.1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This...

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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...

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Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US productivity growth has been disappointing since the 1970s. We propose and empirically explore the hypothesis that slow growth stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral...

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Applying AI to Rebuild Middle Class Jobs

Autor, David H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

While the utopian vision of the current Information Age was that computerization would flatten economic hierarchies by democratizing information, the opposite has occurred. Information, it turns out, is merely an input into a more consequential economic function, decision-making, which is the...

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Help for the Heartland? : The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States

Autor, David H.; Beck, Anne; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

: import tariffs on foreign goods neither raised nor lowered US employment in newly-protected sectors; retaliatory tariffs had … clear negative employment impacts, primarily in agriculture; and these harms were only partly mitigated by compensatory US …

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New Frontiers : The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018

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' exposure to labor-augmenting and labor-automating innovations. We find, first, that the majority of current employment is in …

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Local and national concentration trends in jobs and sales : the role of structural transformation

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