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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

Autor, David; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

service occupations (employment polarization), experienced earnings growth at the tails of the distribution (wage polarization …

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The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws

Autor, David; Donohue, John J.; Schwab, Stewart J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

most likely to litigate under this doctrine. We find no robust employment or wage effects of two other widely recognized …

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This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089122

The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

Autor, David; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality … in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than half as large … as those reported elsewhere and are almost negligible for males. Nevertheless, the estimated effects extend to wage …

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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization--that is, rising employment in the...

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What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Goldin and Katz's <i>The Race between Education and Technology</i> is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...

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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth

Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

contemporary incarnation of this displacement--labor market polarization, meaning the simultaneous growth of high-education, high-wage …

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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David; Hanson, Gordon; Dorn, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on local U.S. labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization while instrumenting for imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?

Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

steeper wage profile while low ability workers are deterred by limited expected gains. Firms profit from their sunk training …

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Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages

Autor, David; Handel, Michael J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

occupations, are significantly related to workers' characteristics, and are robustly predictive of wage differentials both between …

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