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Bottlenecks : Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Patterson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US … stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral distribution of innovation over the last several decades. Because an industry …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is …

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The Labor Market Impacts of Technological Change : From Unbridled Enthusiasm to Qualified Optimism to Vast Uncertainty

Autor, David H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This review considers the evolution of economic thinking on the relationship between digital technology and inequality across four decades, encompassing four related but intellectually distinct paradigms, which I refer to as the education race, the task polarization model, the...

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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...

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New frontiers: the origins and content of new work, 1940-2018

Autor, David H.; Chin, Caroline; Salomons, Anna M.; … - 2022

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Extending the Race between Education and Technology

Autor, David H.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

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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The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change : An Empirical Exploration

Autor, David H. - 2001

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

Autor, David H. - 2000

We describe how a single technological innovation, the introduction of image processing of checks, led to distinctly …

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Computing Inequality : Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

Autor, David H. - 1997

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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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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Untangling Trade and Technology : Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Autor, David H. - 2013

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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