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The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach

Autor, David; Houseman, Susan N.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Federal and state employment programs for low-skilled workers typically emphasize rapid placement of participants into jobs and often place a large fraction of participants into temporary-help agency jobs. Using unique administrative data from Detroit's welfare-to-work program, we apply the...

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Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid

Angrist, Joshua; Autor, David; Hudson, Sally; Pallais, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Does financial aid increase college attendance and completion? Selection bias and the high implicit tax rates imposed by overlapping aid programs make this question difficult to answer. This paper reports initial findings from a randomized evaluation of a large privately-funded scholarship...

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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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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth

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

be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether … from the knowledge of its physiology." Polanyi's observation largely predates the computer era, but the paradox he … identified--that our tacit knowledge of how the world works often exceeds our explicit understanding--foretells much of the …

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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

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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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

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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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.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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