What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz’s The Race between Education and Technology

By Daron Acemoglu, David H. Autor. 2012

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It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent (2013, background): “Over time, this effect might be countered by the continuing broad-based accumulation of human capital, particularly (as pointed out by Acemoglu and Autor 2012) when there are deep interactions between skills and technologies in accomplishing job tasks.”
Robots, reshoring, and the lot of low-skilled workers (2018, background): “com/abstract=3206062 workers (Acemoglu and Autor, 2012; Autor, 2014) and, in combination with rising incomes of the better educated, an increase in wage inequality ( Piketty, 2014), iv) offshoring of labor intensive production to low-wage countries (Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg, 2008), v) an uptick i”
The long-run impact of human capital on innovation and economic development in the regions of Europe (2018, background): “According to Acemoglu and Autor (2012), there are several channels through which human capital may affect technological progress.”
The Hidden STEM Economy. (2013, background): “This trend—job polarization, as some have called it—has just recently been documented and is still being understood and debated.(26) Some have interpreted the trend to imply that workers without a college degree have little hope of making middle-class wages; others suggest that unions need to be str”
Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds (2013, neutral): “See Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2008) and Acemoglu and Autor (2012).”
Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages, and Skill Mismatches (2015, background): “Acemoglu and Autor (2011, 2012) extended these analyses to the present and found that the college wage premium remained relatively steady in the 2000s despite a slowdown in the increase in the relative supply of college graduates compared to high school graduates.”
ASSESSING THE JOB POLARIZATION EXPLANATION OF GROWING WAGE INEQUALITY (2013, methodology): “12 See, most recently, Acemoglu and Autor (2012), Figure 5, covering 1990-2007; as well as, Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2008), Figure 11, covering 1990-2000; Autor (2010), Figure 1, covering 1989-1999; and Acemoglu and Autor (2011),Figure 10, covering 1989-1999.”