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Can We Have Pro-Worker AI? Choosing a path of machines in service of minds

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Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity

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Learning from Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AI

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Bottlenecks: Sectoral Imbalances and the US Productivity Slowdown

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Changing Rent-Sharing in the Economy

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Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

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Growing Regional Disparities

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Growing Regional Disparities

Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

January 2023

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson

Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

January 2023

Daron Acemoglu

Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

Changing Rent-Sharing in the Economy

An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy

November 2022

David Autor, Ahu Yildirmaz

An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

November 2022

Daron Acemoglu, Gary Anderson, David Beede, Cathy Buffington, Eric Childress, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, Pascual Restrepo, Nikolas Zolas

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

The rise of age-friendly jobs

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

October 2022

Daron Acemoglu, Nicolaj Søndergaard Mühlbach, Andrew Scott

The rise of age-friendly jobs

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality

Econometrica

September 2022

Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo

Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality

Changing Rent-Sharing in the Economy

An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

July 2022

David Autor, David Cho, Leland Crane, Mita Goldar, Byron Lutz, Joshua Montes, William Peterman, David Ratner, Daniel Villar Vallenas, Ahu Yildirmaz

An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

The labor market impacts of technological change: from unbridled enthusiasm to qualified optimism to vast uncertainty

May 2022

David Autor

The labor market impacts of technological change: from unbridled enthusiasm to qualified optimism to vast uncertainty

Changing Rent-Sharing in the Economy

The $800 billion paycheck protection program: where did the money go and why did it go there?

Journal of Economic Perspectives

May 2022

David Autor, David Cho, Leland Crane, Mita Goldar, Byron Lutz, Joshua Montes, William Peterman, David Ratner, Daniel Villar, Ahu Yildirmaz

The $800 billion paycheck protection program: where did the money go and why did it go there?

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