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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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Centers of Gravity : The Effect of Stable Shared Leadership in Top Management Teams on Firm Growth and Industry Evolution

Agarwal, Rajshree - 2018

We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...

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Skills, Tasks and Technologies : Implications for Employment and Earnings

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...

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Unpacking Skill Bias : Automation and New Tasks

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2021

The standard approach to modeling inequality, building on Tinbergen's seminal work, assumes factor-augmenting technologies and technological change biased in favor of skilled workers. Though this approach has been successful in conceptualizing and documenting the race between technology and...

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Co-Worker Complemetarity and the Stability of Top Management Teams

Hayes, Rachel M.; Oyer, Paul; Schaefer, Scott - 2021

the composition of top management teams when a key member of the team (the CEO) departs. Our empirical analysis … establishes several facts that are consistent with co-worker complementarity being an important determinant of management team …

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria - 2014

general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities …This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the …

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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

different changes in the structure of jobs in two departments of a large bank overseen by one group of managers. In the …

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Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality : Some Problems and Puzzles

Card, David; DiNardo, John E. - 2021

The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC), associated with the development of personal computers and related information technologies. We review the evidence in favor of this hypothesis, focusing on the...

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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. - 2021

The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...

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The Dark Side of Outside Directors : Do They Quit When They are Most Needed?

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2015

Outside directors have incentives to resign to protect their reputation or to avoid an increase in their workload when they anticipate that the firm on whose board they sit will perform poorly or disclose adverse news. We call these incentives the dark side of outside directors. We find strong...

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