Gray, Rowena; O'Keefe, Siobhan M.; Quincy, Sarah; Ward, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We present new evidence on the long-run trend of occupational task content by race in the United States, 1900-2021. Black workers began the transition to better paid, cognitive-intensive modern jobs at least a generation after white workers; substantial convergence only occurred from 1960...