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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Upstairs, Downstairs : Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank

Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank S.; Murnane, Richard J. - 2021

We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the downstairs deposit processing department, image processing...

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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change : An Empirical Exploration

Autor, David H.; Levy, Frank S.; Murnane, Richard J. - 2021

We apply an understanding of what computers do -- the execution of procedural or rules-based logic -- to study how computer technology alters job skill demands. We contend that computer capital (1) substitutes for a limited and well-defined set of human activities, those involving routine...

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Untangling Trade and Technology : Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Autor, David H. - 2015

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over Three Decades : A Reassessment

Autor, David H. - 2011

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...

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The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States : Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options

Autor, David H. - 2012

Two ailments limit the effectiveness and threaten the long-term viability of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance program (SSDI). First, the program is ineffective in assisting the vast majority of workers with less severe disabilities to reach their employment potential or earn their...

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The China Syndrome : Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2012

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2013

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United States. Regional exposure to technological change, as measured by specialization in routine task-intensive production and clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional...

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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David H. - 2010

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

Autor, David H. - 2010

of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of … and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal … puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In …

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