Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists

By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa S. Kearney. 2005

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

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. James P. Ziliak
2. B. Hardy
3. Emmanuel Saez
4. Lawrence R. Mishel
5. Thomas DeLeire
6. W. Kopczuk
7. Dirk Antonczyk
8. Jae Song

In General Health Professions

1. Lawrence R. Mishel
2. Thomas DeLeire
3. James P. Ziliak
4. B. Hardy
5. Dirk Antonczyk
6. Bernd Fitzenberger
7. Jae Song
8. Heidi S. Shierholz

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Lawrence R. Mishel
2. James P. Ziliak
3. B. Hardy
4. Jae Song
5. Robert J. Gordon
6. Heidi S. Shierholz
7. Oleg Itskhoki
8. Yona Rubinstein

Citations in the corpus

• Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes? (2010, neutral): “See Piketty and Saez (2003, 2006a, 2006b); Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2006, 2008) ; Dew-Becker and Gordon (2005); and Gordon and Dew-Becker (2007).”
• Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds (2013, background): “See Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2008) and Acemoglu and Autor (2012).”
• The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market (2006, neutral): “The divergence of upper- and lower-tail wage inequality since the late 1980s holds for residual wage inequality and is robust to adjustments for labor force composition changes (Autor et al., 2005a).”
• ASSESSING THE JOB POLARIZATION EXPLANATION OF GROWING WAGE INEQUALITY (2013, background): “…need to explain 3 differences in the path of the 90-50 and 50-10 differentials after the late 1980s was an important motivation for the theoretical innovations first proposed by Autor, Levy, Murnane (2003) and Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2006, 2008) and formalized in Acemoglu and Autor (2011, 2012).”
• Estimating distributions of potential outcomes using local instrumental variables with an application to changes in college enrollment and wage inequality (2009, neutral): “Card and Lemieux, 2001, Acemoglu, 2002, Autor, Katz and Kearney, 2007 ).”
• Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Development (2009, neutral): “A similar demand trend, even if wage changes were often less dramatic, has been identified for virtually every OECD country (see for example Autor et al. (2005) for recent evidence on the US and Machin and Van Reenen (1998) or Sanders and ter Weel (2000) for surveys of the evidence on the OECD).”
• Earnings Inequality and Mobility in the United States: Evidence from Social Security Data Since 1937 (2010, methodology): “most of the increase in inequality occurs in the 1980s while Autor et al. (2008), using March CPS data, estimate”