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

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth

Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In 1966, the philosopher Michael Polanyi observed, "We can know more than we can tell... The skill of a driver cannot be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether from the knowledge of its physiology." Polanyi's...

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

Autor, David; Levy, Frank; Murnane, Richard J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

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

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Technology, Trade, and Wages

Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less … skilled; and the stock of world innovation and US patents decreases real wages especially for the less skilled. Turning to the …

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The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U.S. schools during 1981-1999. Faculty employment grows at 0.6 percent per year, compared with growth of 4.9 percent in industrial researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is...

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The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kearney, Melissa S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper analyzes a marked change in the evolution of the U.S. wage structure over the past fifteen years: divergent trends in upper-tail (90/50) and lower-tail (50/10) wage inequality. We document that wage inequality in the top half of distribution has displayed an unchecked and rather...

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Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices

Autor, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kearney, Melissa S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

During the early 1980s, earnings inequality in the U.S. labor market rose relatively uniformly throughout the wage distribution. But this uniformity gave way to a significant divergence starting in 1987, with upper-tail (90/50) inequality rising steadily and lower tail (50/10) inequality either...

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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists

Autor, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; Kearney, Melissa S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

A recent "revisionist " literature characterizes the pronounced rise in U.S. wage inequality since 1980 as an "episodic " event of the first-half of the 1980s driven by non-market factors (particularly a falling real minimum wage) and concludes that continued increases in wage inequality since...

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Science and Industry: Tracing the Flow of Basic Research through Manufacturing and Trade

Adams, James; Clemmons, Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific output at the industry and field level. The time period is the late 20th century. This paper differs from others in its use of measures of science rather than technology. Together...

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Scientific Teams and Institution Collaborations: Evidence from U.S. Universities, 1981-1999

Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper explores recent trends in the size of scientific teams and in institutional collaborations. The data derive from 2.4 million scientific papers written in 110 leading U.S. research universities over the period 1981-1999. We measure team size by the number of authors on a scientific...

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