Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists

By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa S. Kearney. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st century evidence (2011, background): “Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) provided the first large-scale quantitative assessment of task-biased technical change by examining the skill content of jobs in the US.”
Trickle-Down Consumption (2016, neutral): “I. Introduction SINCE the early 1980s, real incomes in the lower andmiddle parts of the U.S. income distribution have risen much more slowly than those in the upper part of the distribution (Goldin & Katz, 2007; Autor, Katz & Kearney 2008; Piketty and Saez, 2003).”
The effects of Labour Market Reforms upon Unemployment and Income Inequalities: an agent based model (2018, neutral): “2 See Autor et al. (2008) within a vast literature. growth variables for 16 OECD countries in the period 1980–1995.”
Decomposing Trends in Income Volatility: The 'Wild Ride' at the Top and Bottom (2014, background): “Bollinger and Hirsch (2006) recommend that imputed data should be dropped owing to potential bias, and many papers in the inequality literature drop these observations (Autor, Katz, and Kearney 2008; Lemieux 2006).”
U.S. High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations (2013, neutral): “…the supply of workers possessing the relevant skills grew relatively slowly (see, e.g., Goldin and Katz 2008; Autor, Levy, and Murnane 2003; and Autor, Katz, and Kearney 2008).45 Although the real wage trends for females are slightly different, the trend in the average payoff to high school…”
Skill-Biased Structural Change (2021, background): “1Important early contributions to the literature on the skill premium that stress skill biased technical change include Katz and Murphy (1992), Bound and Johnson (1992), Murphy and Welch (1992), Berman et al. (1994) and Berman et al.”
Limitations of human capital theory* (2019, background): “…scholars studying work-based incomes in the US is that the blow-out in managerial salaries is more a price effect than an education effect (e.g. Autor, Katz, and Kearney 2008, 317–318; Mouw and Kalleberg 2010; Hanley 2011; Bentele 2013; OECD 2014b), one grounded in tax cuts for high-income…”
Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks, and Wages (2013, neutral): “Subsequent work by Autor, Katz, and Kearney ð2006, 2008Þ, SpitzOener ð2006Þ, Bartel, Ichniowski, and Shaw ð2007Þ, Felstead et al. ð2007Þ, Goos and Manning ð2007Þ, Smith ð2008Þ, Dustmann, Ludsteck, and Schönberg ð2009Þ, Antonczyk, DeLeire, and Fitzenberger ð2010Þ, Black and Spitz-Oener ð2010Þ,…”