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The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

Current concern with relationships among particular technologies, capital, and the wage structure motivates this study of the origins of technology-skill complementarity in manufacturing. We offer evidence of the existence of technology-skill and capital-skill (relative) complementarities from...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States Across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

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...

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The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector : Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

Deming, David; Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, … - 2012

Private for-profit institutions have been the fastest growing part of the U.S. higher education sector. For-profit enrollment increased from 0.2 percent to 9.1 percent of total enrollment in degree-granting schools from 1970 to 2009, and for-profit institutions account for the majority of...

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The Decline of Non-Competing Groups : Changes in the Premium to Education, 1890 to 1940

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

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...

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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. - 2010

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...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : the U.S. Versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F.; Revenga, Ana - 2021

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …

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Job Queues and Wages : New Evidence on the Minimum Wage and Inter-Industry Wage Structure

Holzer, Harry J. - 2010

This paper uses job applications- data to test the existence of non-competitive, ex-ante rents in the labor market. We first examine whether jobs that pay the legal minimum wage face an excessively of labor as measured by the number of job applications received for the most recent positions...

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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

The race between education and technology provides a canonical framework that does an excellent job of explaining U.S. wage structure changes across the twentieth century. The framework involves secular increases in the demand for more-educated workers from skill-biased technological change,...

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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

Autor, David H. - 2007

This paper examines the effect of technological change and other factors on the relative demand for workers with different education levels and on the recent growth of U.S. educational wage differentials. A simple supply-demand framework is used to interpret changes in the relative quantities,...

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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

The U.S. wage structure evolved across the last century: narrowing from 1910 to 1950, fairly stable in the 1950s and 1960s, widening rapidly during the 1980s, and quot;polarizingquot; since the late 1980s. We document the spectacular rise of U.S. wage inequality after 1980 and place recent...

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