Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market

By Daron Acemoglu. 2002

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GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (2023, background): “…of automation technologies, including LLMs, has previously been linked to heightened economic disparity and labor disruption, which may give rise to adverse downstream eﬀects (Acemoglu and Restrepo, 2022a; Acemoglu, 2002; Moll et al., 2021; Klinova and Korinek, 2021; Weidinger et al., 2021, 2022).”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “…are becoming relatively productive, explaining the substantial employment growth in occupations involving cognitive tasks where skilled labour has a comparative advantage, as well as the persistent increase in returns to education (Katz and Murphy, 1992; Acemoglu, 2002; Autor and Dorn, 2013).”
Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2006, background): “But although many economists agree that rising returns to human capital have played an important role in rising income inequality (Acemoglu, 2002), other things have not been equal.”
The Relationship between Technology, Innovation, and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence on E-Business in Europe (2008, background): “…investments into technology and innovation may positively affect the absorptive capacity of firms (Cohen and Levinthal, 1989), the availability of complementary resources such as skilled labor (Acemoglu, 2002; Brynjolfsson and Hitt, 2002), and learning-by-doing effects may occur (Arrow, 1962).”
What Do We Learn from Schumpeterian Growth Theory (2013, neutral): “, zi = 0, this value is equivalent to the baseline model (1) .”
Skill-Biased Technical Change (2008, background): “Note the dierence between equations ( 2 ) and (4): capital-skill comple-”
Schumpeterian Growth Theory and the Dynamics of Income Inequality (2002, methodology): “To reconcile the market size explanation with this evidence, Acemoglu (2000) invokes the existence of decreasing returns in R&D aimed at skill-biased technical progress: Now, whilst individual researchers might experience decreasing returns in their R&D activities, it is not clear why the whole…”
The Evolution of High Incomes in Northern America: Lessons from Canadian Evidence (2005, background): “(See Katz and Autor, 1999 and Acemoglu, 2002 for recent surveys of these U.S. studies.)”
Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields (2016, background): “This variable intends to capture the effect of skill-biased technological change on entrepreneurship (Acemoglu, 2002; Berman et al., 1998).”
Trade Liberalization and Industry Wage Structure : Evidence from Brazil (2004, neutral): “25 References Acemoglu, D. (2001). “Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market”, manuscript.”
Innovation and Employment (2006, neutral): “2 Wage Polarization and the Labor Market Although many studies do not separate the eVects of technological change on skills and wages, some have investigated the evolution of wage diVerentials in three contexts: across industries with varying R&D and capital intensities; among workers and Wrms with ”
Corporations and economic inequality around the world: The paradox of hierarchy☆ (2010, background): “Economists have attributed economywide inequality to changes in technology and economic development (e.g. Acemoglu, 2002).”
Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital (2004, background): “We still do not observe any significant effect of education in a pure level regression (see columns [1] and [2] of Tables Va-b).”
Labour market mobility and employment security of male employees in Europe: `trade-off' or `flexicurity'? (2008, positive): “1 Because of this reduced demand for unskilled labour, the low skilled have to accept jobs of lower quality with lower wages and less job and employment security (Acemoglu, 2002).”
Innovation, automation, and inequality: Policy challenges in the race against the machine (2020, background): “While Hémous and Olsen and Acemoglu and Restrepo assume that R&D creates new intermediate inputs or tasks in production that start out un-automated, we conceptualize R&D as the process that creates patents for automation capital. This view is supported by Mann and Püttmann (2017) who analyzed grante”