The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration

By David H. Autor, Frank Levy, Richard J. Murnane. 2003

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GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (2023, neutral): “Numerous studies have built upon this concept, exploring the eﬀects of technological change and automation on workers within a task-based framework (Autor et al., 2003; Acemoglu and Autor, 2011b; Acemoglu and Restrepo, 2018).”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, neutral): “…equipment by means of capital deepening. were defined as non-routine only a decade ago have now become computerisable is illustrated by Autor et al. (2003), asserting that “Navigating a car through city traffic or deciphering the scrawled handwriting on a personal check – minor…”
The Career Costs of Children (2017, neutral): “Women in more abstract occupations not only earn higher wages than those in the two other groups at the start of their ca- 6 Autor et al. (2003) distinguish between (i) nonroutine analytic, (ii) nonroutine interactive, (iii) routine cognitive, (iv) routine manual, and (v) nonroutine manual jobs.”
The Polarization Myth: Occupational Upgrading in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, 1992–2015 (2019, neutral): “This automation is seen as an important reversal because clerical jobs require a certain level of numeracy and literacy—and are thus not at the very bottom of the occupational hierarchy (Autor et al., 2003, p. 1284).”
Technological Change, Skill Demand, and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Indonesia (2015, positive): “Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) propose a model that distinguishes between skills and tasks.”
Multidimensional Skills, Sorting, and Human Capital Accumulation (2020, neutral): “A non-exhaustive list includes Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003), Acemoglu and Autor (2011), Autor and Dorn (2013), Yamaguchi (2012), Sanders (2012), Lindenlaub (2014), and Guvenen, Kuruscu, Tanaka, and Wiczer (2014), who all use combinations of the NLSY with occupation data from O*NET or from its…”
Domain-general problem solving skills and education in the 21st century (2014, neutral): “…reported that in the 1960s, routine cognitive and manual activities that are characterized by the repeated practice of similar tasks and that are located within highly specified domains began leaving workplaces in the U.S., be it in industry, service, or other occupations (Autor et al., 2003).”
Soft Skills for Entry-Level Engineers: What Employers Want (2021, neutral): “Research on soft skills exists across different fields such as labor economics [7]; employability, workforce development, and human resource development [6,8]; management and communication [4,29]; and in industry or subject specific literature such as information technology [20,30]; STEM [31]; educa”
What is Smart Rural Development (2015, neutral): “Florida (2002) introduced the creative class, Autor et al. (2003) focus on routine and non-routine tasks, and Bacolod et al.”
Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* (2020, neutral): “…work in economics ﬁnds that technological change increases relative demand for educated workers, which leads to rising wage inequality when the supply of skills grows more slowly (e.g., Katz and Murphy 1992; Berman, Bound, and Griliches 1994; Autor, Levy, and Murnane 2003; Acemoglu and Autor 2011).”
Innovation and skill dynamics: a life-cycle approach (2015, positive): “Building on it, labor economists have reframed the relation between humans and “machines” in terms of the dynamics of the skills content of occupations (Autor et al., 2003).”
Offshoring and Directed Technical Change (2015, neutral): “Substituting for πh from (14) and using (3), (4), (11), (13) and (22) yields:”