David Autor
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American economist
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- Bachelors Psychology Tufts University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David H. Autor is an American economist, public policy scholar, and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he also acts as co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative. Although Autor has contributed to a variety of fields in economics his research generally focuses on topics from labor economics.
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Published Works
- Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings (2010) (3495)
- The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States (2012) (3249)
- The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market (2009) (2831)
- Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market? (1997) (2646)
- Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality (1999) (2387)
- Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists (2008) (2202)
- The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market (2006) (1482)
- Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing (2001) (1329)
- The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms (2017) (1285)
- Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace (2015) (1206)
- The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment (2003) (944)
- Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent” (2014) (849)
- The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade (2016) (842)
- Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s (2014) (778)
- Replication data for: Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation (2019) (727)
- Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure (2016) (670)
- Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share (2017) (515)
- Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labour Markets (2013) (513)
- Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States (2007) (504)
- The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over Three Decades: A Reassessment (2010) (461)
- Wiring the Labor Market (2000) (431)
- The “task approach” to labor markets: an overview (2013) (419)
- Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks, and Wages (2009) (419)
- Women, War, and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Midcentury (2004) (413)
- The polarization of job opportunities in the U.S. labor market: implications for employment and earnings (2011) (409)
- Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists (2005) (372)
- Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents (2016) (297)
- When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men (2017) (269)
- What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz&Apos;S the Race between Education and Technology (2012) (265)
- Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices (2005) (265)
- Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century (2002) (264)
- Work of the Past, Work of the Future (2019) (263)
- Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor (2019) (243)
- Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank (2001) (239)
- Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from &Apos;Work First&Apos; (2005) (230)
- Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (2016) (218)
- Is Automation Labor-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share (2018) (205)
- This Job is &Apos;Getting Old:&Apos; Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure (2009) (202)
- Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing (2014) (193)
- Polanyi&Apos;S Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth (2014) (178)
- Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States (2007) (170)
- Does Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from Retail Establishments (2008) (161)
- The Geography of Trade and Technology Shocks in the United States (2013) (148)
- Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States (2009) (147)
- Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants (2011) (123)
- What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz’s The Race between Education and Technology (2012) (119)
- Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2014) (113)
- The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options (2011) (106)
- The Employment Consequences of Wrongful-Discharge Laws: Large, Small, or None at All? (2004) (102)
- This Job is 'Getting Old': Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure (2009) (101)
- Do Temporary-Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First' (2009) (101)
- Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply (2017) (91)
- Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance (2007) (89)
- When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Men (2017) (84)
- Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages (2009) (76)
- Housing Market Spillovers: Evidence from the End of Rent Control in Cambridge, Massachusetts (2014) (76)
- The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework (2008) (74)
- Battle Scars? The Puzzling Decline in Employment and Rise in Disability Receipt among Vietnam Era Veterans (2011) (72)
- Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid (2014) (67)
- Upstairs, Downstairs: Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank (2000) (67)
- RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION* (2003) (57)
- Evaluating Post-Secondary Aid: Enrollment, Persistence, and Projected Completion Effects (2016) (53)
- Studies of Labor Market Intermediation (2009) (53)
- Extending the Race between Education and Technology (2020) (46)
- Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance (2012) (45)
- School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (WP-16-01) (2016) (44)
- Robocalypse Now: Does Productivity Growth Threaten Employment? (2017) (44)
- The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence from the Va's Disability Compensation Program (2015) (43)
- School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (2016) (40)
- Gentrification and the Amenity Value of Crime Reductions: Evidence from Rent Deregulation (2017) (37)
- The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence from the Va&Apos;S Disability Compensation Program (2015) (33)
- The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach (2012) (33)
- The role of temporary employment agencies in welfare to work: Part of the problem or part of the solution? (2002) (27)
- Marginal Effects of Merit Aid for Low-Income Students (2020) (25)
- Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation (2016) (21)
- On the Persistence of the China Shock (2021) (21)
- Evaluating Econometric Evaluations of Post-Secondary Aid (2015) (21)
- The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did it Go There? (2022) (20)
- New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940–2018 (2022) (20)
- The Effect of Transfer Income on Labor Force Participation and Enrollment in Federal Benefits Programs: Evidence from the Veterans Disability Compensation Program (2008) (20)
- Computerization and Skills: Examples from a Car Dealership (1999) (18)
- Trade and labor markets: Lessons from China’s rise (2018) (15)
- Labor Market Intermediation: What It Is, Why It Is Growing, and Where It Is Going (2004) (15)
- NORC at the University of Chicago The University of Chicago Putting Tasks to the Test : Human Capital , Job Tasks , and Wages Author ( s ) : (2013) (14)
- Ending Rent Control Reduced Crime in Cambridge (2019) (14)
- Studies of Labor Market Intermediation: Introduction (2019) (14)
- The “task approach” to labor markets: an overview (2013) (13)
- Introduction to "Studies of Labor Market Intermediation" (2009) (13)
- Structural demand shifts and potential labor supply responses in the new century (2007) (13)
- The Journal of Economic Perspectives at 100 (Issues) (2012) (12)
- Skill Biased Technical Change and Rising Inequality : What is the Evidence ? What are the Alternatives ? (2002) (11)
- Lecture Note: The Economics of Discrimination — Theory (2003) (9)
- Males at the Tails: How Socioeconomic Status Shapes the Gender Gap (2020) (8)
- Technological Change and Earnings Polarization: Implications for Skill Demand and Economic Growth (2008) (7)
- Negative Androgyny and Self-Esteem: Towards a Confound-Free Scale (1988) (6)
- Skill Demand, Inequality, and Computerization: Connecting the Dots (2003) (6)
- Paradox of Abundance (2015) (5)
- Understanding regional export growth in China (2018) (5)
- Grand Challenges in the Study of Employment and Technological Change (2010) (5)
- How Long Has this Been Going on? A Discussion of “Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, (2017) (4)
- Lecture Note: The Economics of Discrimination I (2009) (4)
- Lecture Note 5 : Self-Selection — The Roy Model (2003) (4)
- The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity (2020) (4)
- The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity (2020) (4)
- How does Access to Short Term Disability Insurance Impact SSDI Claiming (2013) (3)
- The Work of the Future (2022) (3)
- Upstairs downstairs: how introducing computer technology changed skills and pay on two floors of Cabot Bank (2002) (3)
- Lecture Note 1 : Wage Density Decompositions (2015) (3)
- Public Health Expenditures on the Working Age Disabled: Assessing Medicare and Medicaid Utilization of SSDI and SSI Recipients (2011) (3)
- Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from the Retail Sector∗ (2005) (3)
- preparing for the work of the future (2019) (3)
- Response to Robert Feenstra , Hong Ma , and Yuan Xu ’ s Comment on Autor , Dorn , and Hanson ( AER 2013 ) (2017) (3)
- Lecture Note 8 — Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes ? (3)
- Note from the Editor: Online Comments for American Economic Association Journals (2009) (2)
- Explaining trends in wages, work, and occupations (2009) (2)
- Disability Policy, Program Enrollment, Work, and Well-Being among People with Disabilities (2020) (2)
- Labor Market Adjustment to International Trade (2014) (2)
- Comment on Jonathan Rothwell’s Critique of Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013) (2017) (2)
- Replication data for: The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment (2019) (2)
- Lecture Note: The Economics of Immigration (2003) (1)
- 14.662 Spring 2012, Lecture Note 3: Market Structure, Organizational Structure and Wage Structure (2012) (1)
- 14.662-Spring 2012 Lecture 1 – The Theory of Skill Premia (2012) (1)
- Does Temporary Agency Employment Offer a Way Out of Poverty (2006) (1)
- Economic and political consequences of China's rise for the United States: lessons from the China shock (2017) (1)
- Spring 2018 Lecture Note : The Canonical Model of Skill Differentials (2018) (1)
- Report of the Search Committee for the Editor of the American Economic Review (2017) (1)
- Nontechnical Summary Can a Task-based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure? – Long Version – (1)
- Economic Consequences of Tightening the Disability Screening Process (2014) (1)
- Screening for Hourly Wages Jobs: Is there a Trade-Obetween E¢ ciency and Equality? (2004) (1)
- Lecture Note: The Economics of Discrimination — Evidence (2003) (1)
- Editorial Collaborators (2001) (0)
- Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation (2023) (0)
- 14.662 Spring 2018, Lecture Note 6: Canonical Models of Trade, Technology and Skill Demand (2018) (0)
- Rising Inequality: Among the Other 99% (2016) (0)
- IZA DP No . 11465 When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men APRIL 2018 (2018) (0)
- Lecture Note : Group Di ¤ erences in Economic Outcomes : Market and Non-Market Factors (2009) (0)
- Lecture Note : Social ( Non-Market ) Interactions (2009) (0)
- MIT 14.662 Graduate Labor Economics II Spring 2009 Lecture Note 5: Trade, Outsourcing, Skills and Wages (2009) (0)
- Lecture Note : A Ricardian Model of Task-Biased Technological Change (2012) (0)
- 14.662 S15 Labor Economics II Lecture 4 (2015) (0)
- MIT 14.662 Graduate Labor Economics II Spring 2005 Lecture Note 1: Rising Earnings Inequality: Facts, Models and Hypotheses (2005) (0)
- 1 Trade , Outsourcing , Technological Change and Skill Demands (2012) (0)
- Spring 2015 Lecture Note 3 — Educational Production and Wage Structure (2015) (0)
- Do temporary jobs help low-skilled workers?: surprising data from Detroit (2007) (0)
- Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with Funding from on Two Floors of a Large Bank on Two Floors of a Large Bank Computers and Skillson Two Floors of Islarge Bank (0)
- Lecture Note 5 : Segregation , Market Outcomes , and Individual Impacts (0)
- Replication data for: Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes (2019) (0)
- Note 6 : Institutions , Norms , Collective Bargaining and Worker Productivity (2015) (0)
- Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock (2023) (0)
- Editorial collaborators (2007) (0)
- Note 3 : Skill-Biased Technological Change and Wage Structure : Many Hypotheses and Some Evidence (2009) (0)
- Lecture Note # 6 : Immigration , Trade , Technology and Prices (2009) (0)
- MIT Graduate Labor Economics 14.662 Spring 2012 Lecture Note 6: Wage Density Decompositions (2009) (0)
- 14.662 Spring 2018, Lecture Note 7: Ricardian Models of Trade (2012) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES ON THE PERSISTENCE OF THE CHINA SHOCK (2021) (0)
- 14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2000 (2000) (0)
- Replication data for: School Quality and the Gender Gap in Educational Achievement (2019) (0)
- Job Loss and Job Search at the Micro and Macro Level (2015) (0)
- 14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2003 - Fall 2004 (2004) (0)
- 14.11 Spring 2006: Putting Social Science to the Test. Lecture Note #3: Incentives and Economic Behavior (2006) (0)
- The Gains from International Trade : Empirical Evidence Using the Method of Instrumental Variables (2016) (0)
- Report of the Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives (2011) (0)
- Lecture Note 3 : Discrimination and Learning (2009) (0)
- Note 2 – Causal Inference in Economics , with an Application to the Minimum Wage Debate (2016) (0)
- Frontmatter, table of contents (2009) (0)
- ABSTRACT Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence * (2014) (0)
- Report of the EditorJournal of Economic Perspectives (2010) (0)
- Does Delay Cause Decay (2015) (0)
- Lecture Note: Efficiency wages, Neoclassical and Non-Neoclassical Evidence (2003) (0)
- 14.662 Spring 2017 Bonus Lecture Notes: Technological Change, Organizational Structure and Wage Structure (2017) (0)
- NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TRADE ADJUSTMENT : WORKER LEVEL EVIDENCE (2013) (0)
- MIT 14.662 Graduate Labor Economics II Spring 2009 Lecture Note 4: Market Structure, Organizational Structure and Wage Structure (2009) (0)
- Comment on "A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: 1970-2000" (2010) (0)
- MIT 14.662 Graduate Labor Economics II Spring 2009 Lecture Note 1: Earnings Inequality: Facts, Models and Hypotheses (2009) (0)
- Note 2 : Educational Production and Wage Structure (2009) (0)
- Comment (2010) (0)
- Editorial Collaborators (1999) (0)
- Replication data for: The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program (2019) (0)
- 14 . 662 — Spring 2018 Lecture Note # 2 : Educational Production and Wage Structure (2018) (0)
- Three Consequences of the Internet for Labor Markets (2001) (0)
- Replication data for: Do Temporary-Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from \"Work First\" (2009) (0)
- Editorial Collaborators (2000) (0)
- Economic Consequences of Tightening the Disability Screening ∗ (2014) (0)
- 14.03 / 14.003 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy, Fall 2010 (2010) (0)
- Why Was the “China Shock” So Shocking–and What Does This Mean for Policy? (2021) (0)
- Lecture Note 14 – Why is Free Trade Controversial ? Theory and Evidence (2016) (0)
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