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  • Data Archive by Topic
  • Autor, Katz, Krueger (1998): QJE
  • Autor (2003): JOLE
  • Autor and Duggan (2003): QJE
  • Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003): QJE
  • Autor, Acemoglu and Lyle (2004): JPE
  • Autor, Katz and Kearney (2006): AER
  • Autor, Donohue and Schwab (2006): ReStat
  • Autor, Katz and Kearney (2008): ReStat
  • Autor and Dorn (2009): AER
  • Autor (2010): CAP/Hamilton Paper
  • Acemoglu and Autor (2011): HLE
  • Autor and Dorn (2013): AER
  • Autor, Dorn and Hanson (2013): AER
  • Acemoglu, Autor, Dorn, Hanson, and Price (2014): AER
  • Autor (2014): Science
  • Autor, Dorn and Hanson (2015): EJ
  • Autor (2015): JEP
  • Angrist, Autor, Hudson and Pallais (2015): AER P&P
  • Autor, Houseman, and Kerr (2016): JOLE
  • Acemoglu, Autor, Dorn, Hanson, and Price: JOLE forthcoming
  • Autor, Manning, and Smith: AEJ forthcoming

David Autor

Data Archive by Topic

Papers Unavailable for Public Use

The following papers cannot be made available for public use:

Does Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from Retail Establishments
David H. Autor and David Scarborough
February 2008, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(1), 219-277

Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'
David H. Autor and Susan N. Houseman
January 2008

Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?
David Autor
November 2003, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (4), (full text available; not copywritten).

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from US States
David H. Autor, William R. Kerr and Adriana D. Kugler
June 2007, Economics Journal

 

Inequality and Technological Change

Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation
David H. Autor
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(3), Summer 2015, 3-30.

Evaluating Econometric Evaluations of Post-Secondary Aid
Joshua Angrist, David Autor, Sally Hudson and Amanda Pallais
American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105(5): 502–507.

Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, and Brendan Price
Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming.

Skills, Education, and the Rise of Earnings Inequality Among the "Other 99 Percent" 
David H. Autor
Science, 23 May 2014: 344 (6186), 843-851.

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.

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.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), November 2003, 1279-1334.

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.

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

This Job is 'Getting Old': Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
David Autor and David Dorn
American Economic Review, P&P, 99(2), 45-51, 2009. 

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

Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings
Daron Acemoglu and David H. Autor
Handbook of Labor Economics Volume 4, Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Card (eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011.

The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
David Autor and David Dorn
American Economic Review, 103(5), 1553-1597, 2013.

The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson
American Economic Review, 103(6), 2121-2168, 2013. 

Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, and Brendan Price
American Economic Review, P&P, 104(5), 394-399, 2014. 

Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson
The Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (May), 621–646.

Labor Market Intermediation

Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing
David Autor
January 2003, Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21(1)

Disability and Labor Force Participation

The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), February 2003, 157 - 206.

Labor Market Impacts of Wrongful Discharge Protections

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws
David H. Autor, John J. Donohue III and Stewart J. Schwab
Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(2), May 2006, 211 - 231.

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