Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective

By Lawrence F. Katz, Robert A. Margo. 2013

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Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth (2014, unknown): “… occupations had at least a four-‐‑year college degree in 1979, with 14 There are also two papers that do not find occupational polarization in the U.S.…”
In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940 (2015, unknown): “Katz and Margo (2014) document a substantial increase in the share of white collar jobs in the overall economy between 1850 and 1910 (from 6.9% to 19.7%), and a contemporaneous upward trend in relative wages of white collar workers relative to common laborers and artisans.”
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy (2019, background): “…has remained nar-rowly focused on the question of skills and whether human and AI are substitutes or complements on the labour market (Acemoglu, Autor, Dorn, Hanson, & Price, 2014; Autor, 2013; Brynjolfsson & Hitt, 2000; Frey & Osborne, 2017; Genz, Lehmer, & Janser, 2018; Katz & Margo, 2013).”
The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation, and Income Inequality (2014, background): “from most of the literature, which seeks to explain changes in the distribution of income inequality through exogenous changes: an exogenous increase in the stock of equipment as per Krusell et al. (2000), a change in the relative supply of skills, as per Acemoglu (1998), or the arrival of a general”
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration (2019, methodology): “Also, moderate Democrats are not replaced by moderate Republicans (column 5), but rather by conservative Republicans (column 6).”
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa (2019, background): “…and unskilled positions similarly to “computerization” and broadband Internet in rich countries (Autor et al. , 1998, 2003, 2008; Goos et al. , 2014; Katz & Margo, 2014; Akerman et al. , 2015), although the increase in overall employment and employment in skilled occupations is notably bigger in…”
Robots Are Us: Some Economics of Human Replacement (2015, background): “(10) Households Whether high-tech or low-tech, households maximize u = (1− φ)[(1− κ)logcy,t + κlogsy,t] + φ[(1− κ)logco,t+1 + κlogso,t+1], (11) 3To understand this production function consider a firm which provides the service of ’making good chess moves’.”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “This is suggested by recent findings, revealing a decline of middle-skill artisan jobs in favour of both high-skill white collar workers and lowskill operatives (Gray, 2013; Katz and Margo, 2013).”