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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Technological Change
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change
From Walker Hanlon: This study provides causal evidence that a shock to the relative supply of inputs to production can (1) affect the direction of technological progress and (2) lead to a rebound in the relative price of the input that … Continue reading
Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth
From David Autor: In 1966, the philosopher Michael Polanyi observed, “We can know more than we can tell… The skill of a driver cannot be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of … Continue reading
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Tagged computerization, david autor, Job polarization, Job Tasks, Skill Demand, Technological Change
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Localized and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz’s New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change
From Daron Acemoglu: This paper revisits the important ideas proposed by Atkinson and Stiglitz’s seminal 1969 paper on technological change. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological change literature, … Continue reading
Inequality and Technological Change: The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
A very interesting paper from Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad: Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on … Continue reading
Fiscal Policy in a Changing World
From Larry Summers: I invite you to consider how the prodigious change associated with information technology that may be qualitatively different from past technological change may have defining implications for our economy going forward. If I have caused you to … Continue reading
Technological Change through History: the View from 30,000 feet
Brad Delong has a an outstanding post on technological change. He categorizes how people add value and shows how technological change alters these categories. It’s interesting to think about his post and these issues in terms of a simple (classical) model and … Continue reading
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Tagged Brad Delong, Incidence, inequality, larry summers, Productivity, Robots, Technological Change
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Who Benefits from Technological Change?
Given recent concern about technological change and how it is wrecking the middle class, I thought I’d share a simple illustration of what classical economic models* imply about the relationship between productivity growth and the returns to workers and capital owners. … Continue reading
Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets
From David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson: We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition … Continue reading
The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
From David Autor and David Dorn: We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the … Continue reading
What economic problem keeps Larry Summers up at night?
What about the economy now keeps you in cold sweats at night? I worry for the medium and long term about where the jobs are going to come from for those with fewer skills. One in five men between 25 … Continue reading
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Tagged david autor, Globalization, inequality, Jobs, Labor, larry summers, Middle Class, NYTimes, Technological Change
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