The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

By David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa S. Kearney. 2006

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Heterogeneous Labor Market Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, methodology): “Heterogeneous Impacts across Occupations and Industries Following a similar approach to the literature on job polarization (e.g., Autor, Katz, and Kearney 2006; Goos and Manning 2007; Acemoglu and Autor 2011), we analyze the distributional impacts of the pandemic by ranking occupations and…”
Matching and Inequality in the World Economy (2010, positive): “Property (18)ˆj ≥ j is reminiscent, for instance, of the impact of computerization, as modeled by Autor et al. (2006).”
Inequality and Trust: New Evidence from Panel Data (2016, neutral): “One of the most prominent explanations for inequality trends in recent decades concerns SBTC (see Levi and Murnane, 1992; Acemoglu, 2002; Autor et al., 2006).”
Capitalism and Urbanization in a New Key? The Cognitive-Cultural Dimension (2007, background): “The gap between the average incomes of these two strata of the workforce identified in the previous paragraphs has been growing apace in the United States over the last decade or so (Autor et al. 2006; Morris and Western 1999; Yun 2006).”
The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk (2014, background): “The pronounced U shape in the 1990s can be viewed as a stronger version of what Autor, Katz, and Kearney ð2006Þ called “wage polarization” during this period.”
Cultural economy and the creative field of the city (2010, background): “…they are associated with high levels of computerization and incessant innovation in both process and product configurations, especially when compared with the economy of mechanization and repetition that dominated up to about the 1980s (cf. Corsani 2003; levy and Murnane 2004; autor et al. 2006).”
It's the Market: The Broad-Based Rise in the Return to Top Talent (2013, background): “…would include explanations of greater inequality based in skill-biased technological change (Katz and Murphy 1992; Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg 2006; Autor, Katz, and Kearney 2006; Garicano and Hubbard 2007), greater scale (Tervio 2008; Gabaix and Landier 2008), superstars (Rosen 1981), and trade…”
Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace (2015, background): “…evidence confirms the presence of employment polarization at the level of industries, localities, and national labor markets (Autor, Katz, and Kearney 2006, 2008; Goos and Manning 2007; Autor and Dorn 2013; Michaels, Natraj, and Van Reenen 2014; Goos, Manning, and Salomons 2014; Graetz and…”
Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries (2020, background): “Acemoglu (1999), Autor, Katz, and Kearney (2006), Goos and Manning (2007), and Goos, Manning, and Salomons (2009), among others, document that employment is becoming concentrated at the tails of the occupational skill distribution.”