David Autor

Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003): QJE

The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), November 2003, 1279-1334.

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Table 1. Predictions of Task Model for the Impact of Computerization on Four Categories of Workplace Tasks (excel file)
Table 2. Means of Task Input by Decade and Decomposition into Within and Between Industry Components, 1960-1998
Table 3. Computerization and Industry Task Input, 1960-1998
Table 4. Computer Investment, Capital Intensity, and Task Input in Three-Digit Industries 1960-1998: Stacked First-Difference Estimates
Table 5. Computerization and Industry Task Input 1980-1998: Overall and by Education Group
Table 6. Computerization and Changes in Job Task Content Within Occupations 1977-1991
Table 7. Shifts in College-Equivalent Labor Demand Implied by Changes in Job Tasks, 1970-1999 (excel file)

Figure 1. Trends in Routine and Nonroutine Task Input, 1960 to 1998
Figure 2. Smoothed Differences between the Density of Nonroutine Task Input in 1960 and Subsequent Years

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