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Health Inequality and Economic Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
Russo, Nicolo; McGee, Rory; De Nardi, Mariacristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We measure health inequality during middle and old age by race, ethnicity, and gender and evaluate the extent to which …
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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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Uneven Growth : Automation's Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality
Moll, Benjamin; Rachel, Lukasz; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The benefits of new technologies accrue not only to high-skilled labor but also to owners of capital in the form of higher capital incomes. This increases inequality. To make this argument, we develop a tractable theory that links technology to the personal income and wealth distributions - and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482656
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The Effects of Technological Change on Earnings and Income Inequality inthe United States
Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1987
This paper explores the relationship between technological change and inequality in the U.S. since the late 1960's. The analysis focuses primarily on studying patterns and trends in the dispersion of various distributions of earnings and income during this recent period of rapid technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476731
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172118
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Income Dynamics in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
dynamics differ substantially by gender, education, and origin. Men face lower volatility than women, but their earnings growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496080
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The Glass Ceiling and The Paper Floor : Gender Differences among Top Earners, 1981-2012
Guvenen, Fatih - 2014
We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last … changes in industry and age composition to the change in the gender composition of top earners. A large proportion of the … gender gaps over the life cycle, and gender differences among lifetime top earners …
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The economics of artificial intelligence : an agenda
Agrawal, Ajay (ed.); Gans, Joshua (ed.); Goldfarb, Avi (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Artificial …; … - 2019
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb -- I. AI as a GPT -- 1. Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics / Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Chad Syverson, Comment: Rebecca...
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Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation
Lustig, Hanno - 2009
Three of the most fundamental changes in US corporations since the early 1970s have been (1) the increased importance of organizational capital in production, (2) the increase in managerial income inequality and pay-performance sensitivity, and (3) the secular decrease in labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463986
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Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality : A Survey
Gordon, Robert J. - 2008
Data on consumption inequality are too fragile to reach firm conclusions. We introduce two new issues, disparities in the growth of price indexes and also of life expectancy between the rich and the poor. We conclude with a perspective on international differences that blends institutional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464664