David Autor

Autor, Katz and Kearney (2006): AER

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.

NBER working paper version (pdf file)

Downloads (all datasets, do-files, log files, and graphs zipped):

Cleaning Programs

calc-occ-educ-meds (datasets) (do and log files)
calc-occ-wage-meds (datasets) (do and log files)
2000 Census (datasets) (do and log files)
1990 Census (datasets) (do and log files)
1980 Census (datasets) (do and log files)

Figures

Figure 1. Male and Female Log Hourly 90/50 and 50/10 Earnings Ratios (datasets) (do and log files) (graphs)
Figure 2. Changes in Male and Female Log Real Hourly Earnings by Percentile, 1973–1988 and 1988–2004
Figure 3. Smoothed Changes in Occupational Employment Shares 1980-2000, with Occupations Ranked by Their 1980 Median Wage (datasets) (do and log files) (graphs)
Figure 4. Smoothed Changes in Occupational Employment Shares 1980-2000, with Occupations Ranked by Their 1980 Average Years of Schooling. (datasets) (do and log files) (graphs)