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Offshoring and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
Ricardian model of offshoring. A unique final good is produced by combining a skilled and an unskilled product, each produced …-scarce East. Profit maximization determines both the extent of offshoring and technological progress. Offshoring induces skill … relevant case, starting from low levels, an increase in offshoring opportunities triggers a transition with falling real wages …
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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999
Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the first to inquire of wage and salary income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471668
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Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
employment opportunities for which they have comparative advantage. This framework yields a simple equation linking wage changes … offshoring) rather than those of rising market power, markups or deunionization, which themselves do not appear to play a major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585404
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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007
major factor in the surge in educational wage differentials. Polarization set in during the late 1980s with employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465079
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The Race between Education and Technology : The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007
U.S. educational and occupational wage differentials were exceptionally high at the dawn of the twentieth century and then decreased in several stages over the next eight decades. But starting in the early 1980s the labor market premium to skill rose sharply and by 2005 the college wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465672
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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality : Re-Assessing the Revisionists
Autor, David H. - 2005
visible in a recent "polarization" of skill demands in which employment has expanded in high-wage and low-wage work at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467050
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The Decline of Non-Competing Groups : Changes in the Premium to Education, 1890 to 1940
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1995
Between 1890 and the late 1920s the premium to high school education declined substantially for both men and women. In 1890 ordinary office workers, whose positions generally required a high school diploma, earned almost twice what production workers did. But by the late 1920s they earned about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473675
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Changes in the Structure of Wages : The U.S. versus Japan
Katz, Lawrence F. - 1989
This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since the early 1970s. While educational earnings differentials have expanded dramatically in the U.S. in the 1980s, the college wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476025
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Automation and Rent Dissipation : Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents--wages above opportunity cost--in some jobs. We show that automation targets high-rent tasks, dissipating rents and amplifying wage losses from automation. It also reduces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576564
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The Most Egalitarian of All Professions : Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2012
the changing nature of pharmacy employment with the growth of large national pharmacy chains and hospitals and the related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460250