David H. Autor

The Work of the Future

Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem....

The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality Over Three Decades

A Reassessment

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation i...

What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race Between Education and Technology

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Women, war and wages

the effect of female labor supply on the wage structure at mid-century

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The Costs of Wrongful-discharge Laws

We estimate the effects on employment and wages of wrongful-discharge protections in the United States. Over the last three decades, most U.S. state c...