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A new architecture for the U.S. national accounts

Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau (contributor); … - Conference on a New Architecture for the U.S. National … - 2006

A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts brings together a distinguished group of contributors to initiate the development of a comprehensive and fully integrated set of United States national accounts. The purpose of the new architecture is not only to integrate the existing systems of...

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New frontiers : the origins and content of new work$d1940-2018

Autor, David H.; Chin, Caroline; Salomons, Anna; … - In: The quarterly journal of economics 139 (2024) 3, pp. 1399-1465

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Productivity and US economic growth

Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau; Gollop, Frank Martin; … - 1987

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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005

Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005

The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...

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Do employment protections reduce productivity? Evidence from US states

Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2007

of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of … and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal … puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In …

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This job is getting old: measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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Do temporary help jobs improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers? Evidence from Random assignments

Autor, David H.; Houseman, Susan N. - 2005

A disproportionate share of low-skilled U.S. workers is employed by temporary help firms. These firms offer rapid entry into paid employment, but temporary help jobs are typically brief and it is unknown whether they foster longer-term employment. We draw upon an unusual, large-scale policy...

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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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Bilateral models of production for Japanese and U.S. industries

Jorgenson, Dale Weldeau; Sakuramoti, Hikaru; Yoshioka, Kanji - 1986

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