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The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 5, pp. 1553-97
We offer a unified analysis of the growth of low-skill service occupations between 1980 and 2005 and the concurrent polarization of US employment and wages. We hypothesize that polarization stems from the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over specialization, and the...
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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2023
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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Trading Places : Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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Leveling up : early results from a randomized evaluation of post-secondary aid
Angrist, Joshua D.; Autor, David H.; Hudson, Sally; … - 2014
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
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 limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 394-399
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
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Does employment protection reduce productivity? : evidence from US states
Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 117 (2007), pp. 189-217
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Do employment protections reduce productivity? : Evidence from US states
Autor, David H. (contributor); Kerr, William R. (contributor) - 2007
Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms … 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 …
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Do employment protections reduce productivity? : evidence from US states
Autor, David H.; Kerr, William R.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2007
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