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Tasks At Work : Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Kong, Fredric; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work to understand the major labor market trends of the last several decades. Production in each industry necessitates the completion of a range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of...

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Bottlenecks : Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

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 … stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral distribution of innovation over the last several decades. Because an industry …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is …

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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …

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Health, height, nutrition, and mortality : evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from union army recruits in the middle of the nineteenth century

Haines, Michael R. (contributor) - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...

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Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We document that between 50% and 70% of changes in the US wage structure over the last four decades are accounted for by the relative wage declines of worker groups specialized in routine tasks in industries experiencing rapid automation. We develop a conceptual framework where tasks across a...

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Eclipse of Rent-Sharing : The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark

Acemoglu, Daron; He, Alex Xi; Le Maire, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce their employees' wages. Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3...

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Early Fertility Decline in the United States : Tests of Alternative Hypotheses using New Complete-Count Census Microdata and Enhanced County-Level Data

Haines, Michael R. - 2020

The U.S. fertility transition in the nineteenth century is unusual. Not only did it start from a very high fertility level and very early in the nation's development, but it also took place long before the nation's mortality transition, industrialization, and urbanization. This paper assembles...

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AI and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022 - Revised February 2022

We study the impact of AI on labor markets, using establishment level data on vacancies with detailed occupational information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. We classify establishments as "AI exposed" when their workers engage in tasks that are...

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Inequality and Infant and Childhood Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century

Haines, Michael R. - 2010

This paper deals with the issue of using infant and childhood mortality as an indicator of inequality. The case is that of the United States in the 20th century. Using microdata from the 1900 and 1910 Integrated Public Use Microsamples (IPUMS), published data from the Birth Registration Area in...

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