Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages. NBER Working Paper No. 15116.

By David H. Autor, M. Handel. 2009

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Revisiting the risk of automation (2017, background): “As a key drawback, these assessments neglect the general finding that tasks vary substantially within occupations (Autor and Handel 2013) and adjust to computerization (Spitz-Oener 2006).”
Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses (2021, background): “We consider “ labor ” as the bundle of skills and abilities that are used within a specific occupation (D. Autor & Handel, 2013; Cohen, 2012), and this “ micro ” approach allows us to examine how AI may be related to the abilities that each occupation requires.”
Measuring the Occupational Impact of AI: Tasks, Cognitive Abilities and AI Benchmarks (2020, methodology): “In this model work tasks are deﬁned by their routine, abstract, and manual content, all three characteristics of work organisation that point towards task automation (Autor and Handel, 2013).”
What is the price of a skill? The value of complementarity (2022, background): “In this context, several papers have taken skill diversity and individual cognitive abilities into account to estimate their effect on wages (Altonji, 2010; Autor & Handel, 2013; Borghans et al., 2008; Bowles et al., 2001; Heckman et al., 2006; Ingram & Neumann, 2006).”
The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework (2019, background): “Conditional on being employed, blacks are less likely than whites to report that their jobs require the use of high school level math on at least a weekly basis (Autor and Handel, 2013).”
Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings. NBER Working Paper No. 16082. (2010, unknown): “Autor and Handel ( 2009 ) also use individual task measures collected by the PDII survey instrument and demonstrate that these measures o¤er substantial additional explanatory power for wages relative to occupation level data from O * NET .”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, background): “Autor et al. (2015) compare the impact of import competition from China to technological change and find that the impact of trade is concentrated in manufacturing and larger among less-skilled workers.”