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Effects of Title IX and Sports Participation on Girls' Physical Activity and Weight
Kaestner, Robert - 2006
In this study, we examined the association between girls' participation in high school sports and the physical activity …, weight, body mass and body composition of adolescent females during the 1970s when girls' sports participation was … dramatically increasing as a result of Title IX. We found that increases in girls' participation in high school sports, a proxy for …
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Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession
Blair, Peter Q. - 2020
In this paper we use detailed job vacancy data to estimate changes in skill demand in the years since the Great Recession. The share of job vacancies requiring a bachelor's degree increased by more than 60 percent between 2007 and 2019, with faster growth in professional occupations and...
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Unpacking Skill Bias : Automation and New Tasks
Acemoglu, Daron - 2020
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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Skills, Tasks and Technologies : Implications for Employment and Earnings
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
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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Putting Tasks to the Test : Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages
Autor, David H. - 2009
Employing original, representative survey data, we document that cognitive, interpersonal and physical job task demands can be measured with high validity using standard interview techniques. Job tasks vary substantially within and between occupations, are significantly related to workers'...
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Are Franchises Bad Employers?
Cappelli, Peter - 2007
Franchise jobs are often described as representing the epitome of the "low road" approach to managing employees: high turnover, little training, deskilled jobs, and little employee involvement, practices often seen as unsophisticated. Research on franchise operations suggests, however, that the...
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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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Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets : Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals
Deming, David - 2017
We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into ten general skills. There is substantial variation in these skill requirements, even within narrowly defined occupations. Focusing particularly on...
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The Requirements of Jobs : Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey
Gittleman, Maury - 2016
The Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) is a new survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics which collects data on the educational, cognitive, and physical requirements of jobs, as well as the environmental conditions in which the work is performed. Using pre-production data, we provide...
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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Burstein, Ariel - 2015
We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...
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