Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings. NBER Working Paper No. 16082.

By Daron Acemoglu, David H. Autor. 2010

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Climate policies and skill-biased employment dynamics: Evidence from EU countries (2018, background): “, 2012), to spur a green comparative advantage, possibly leading to net job creation.(1) Overall, the aggregate effect of environmental policies on labour demand remains a largely unresolved empirical issue.”
When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality (2018, neutral): “97, which is the value of the college skill premium reported in Acemoglu and Autor (2011). This yields μ = 0.”
Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality (2021, methodology): “First, our conceptual framework builds on previous task models, in particular, Zeira (1998), Acemoglu and Zilibotti (2001), Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003), Acemoglu and Autor (2011), and Acemoglu and Restrepo (2018), as well as Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg’s (2008) model of offshoring.”
The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality (2014, background): “…has been accompanied by a ‘job polarization’ as employment has followed the same pattern of de- creasing employment in middle-skill occupations.2 Acemoglu and Autor (2011) argue that a task-based model where technological progress explicitly allows the replacement of one input, e.g.…”
The rise of robots and the fall of routine jobs (2020, background): “Firms produce a variety of products using a continuum of tasks ( Acemoglu and Autor, 2011 ), and these products diﬀer in the number of tasks that can be performed by robots ( Graetz and Michaels, 2018 ).”
Gender Differences in Education (2012, neutral): “According Acemoglu and Autor (2011) the employment share of these job titles decreased from 57 to 46 percent between 1979 and 2009 in the United States.”