expansion of female clerical employment driven by World War I, we find that daughters of civil servants exposed to female co …

history I've compiled from 1905 to 2023, 45% occurred between 1963 and 1973. The greatly increased employment of women, the … of Congress were behind the advances. But women soon became splintered by marital status, employment, region, and …

have opted for steep minimum wage hikes, which we find have especially improved Hispanics' relative wages, both because … they continue to earn low wages and because they reside disproportionately in those states. Finally, we make predictions …

This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents--wages …

advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …

--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately … model. I document that minimum wages--together with supply and demand--play a central role in shaping the evolution of the U …