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We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation in 1980, they were more likely to shift to high-skill,...
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wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …
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This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data … gap indexes to be attributed to a failure of real wages to respond to the post-1972 productivity growth slowdown is … relatively minor. The paper's analysis of productivity change confirms the real-wage elasticity of labor input emphasized …
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prices and total factor productivity (TFP) with the aim of highlighting data patterns that are useful for evaluating business … run movements in total factor productivity and (ii) such stock prices innovations do not affect U.S. sectoral TFPs …
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Our answer: not so well. We reach that conclusion after reviewing recent research on the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations. The bulk of the evidence suggests a limited role for aggregate technology shocks, pointing instead to demand factors as the main force behind the...
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our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …
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firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority …, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for the median-paid employee to 0.15 for the top-paid employee … rising productivity can explain 40% of the rise in within-firm inequality since 1980 …
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We study the extent to which manufacturing decline and local housing booms contributed to changes in labor market outcomes during the 2000s, focusing primarily on the distributional consequences across geographical areas and demographic groups. Using a local labor markets design, we estimate...
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