David Autor

Inequality, Technological Change and Globalization

The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming

Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson
MIT Working Paper, March 2013

Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education
David Autor and Melanie Wasserman
March 2013, Third Way

The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
David Autor and David Dorn
American Economic Review, forthcoming

The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson
American Economic Review, forthcoming

Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages
David Autor and Michael Handel
Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming

What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
Daron Acemoglu and David Autor
Journal of Economic Literature, 50(2), 2012, 426-463

Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings [contains color figures: not B&W printer friendly]
Daron Acemoglu and David H. Autor
Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 4, Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Card (eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011
[Optional: Black and white version of paper for non-color printers]

U.S. Labor Market Challenges over the Longer Term
David H. Autor
October 2010, paper prepared for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Slides to accompany the paper:
Impending Labor Market Challenges: Males between the Blades of the Marshallian Scissors

The Minimum Wage’s Role in the Evolution of U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Modest Re-Assessment
David Autor, Alan Manning, and Christopher L. Smith
MIT Working Paper, November 2010 (revised from October 2008).

The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market: Implications for Employment and Earnings
David Autor
May 2010, Center for American Progress and The Hamilton Project

This Job is “Getting Old”: Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities using Occupational Age Structure
David Autor and David Dorn
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), May 2009, 45-51

Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz and Melissa S. Kearney
May 2008, Review of Economics and Statistics

Structural Demand Shifts and Potential Labor Supply Responses in the
New Century
David Autor
September 2007, Prepared for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference on
“Labor Supply in the New Century”

The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz and Melissa S. Kearney
January 2006, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), May 2006, 189 - 194.

Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz and Melissa S. Kearney
August 2005, Revised from December 2004

Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century
David Autor, Daron Acemoglu and David Lyle
June 2004, Journal of Political Economy, 112(3)

The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
David H. Autor, Frank Levy and Richard J. Murname
November 2003, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4)

Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank
David Autor, Frank Levy and Richard J. Murname
April 2002, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 55 (3)

Wiring the Labor Market
David H. Autor
Winter 2001, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(1)

Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
David Autor, Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113 (4), November 1998, 1169-1214.