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Papers Unavailable for Public Use

The following papers cannot be made available for public use:

Does Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from Retail Establishments
David H. Autor and David Scarborough
February 2008, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(1), 219-277

Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'
David H. Autor and Susan N. Houseman
January 2008

Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?
David Autor
November 2003, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (4), (full text available; not copywritten).

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from US States
David H. Autor, William R. Kerr and Adriana D. Kugler
June 2007, Economics Journal

 

Inequality and Technological Change

Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?
David Autor, Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 113 (4), November 1998, 1169-1214.

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Table 1. Levels and Changes in the Educational Composition of Employment and the College+/High School Wage Premium, 1940-1996 (excel)
Table 2. College and College Equivalent Wage-Bill Shares, Supply and Demand Shifts, 1940-1996 (excel)
Table 3. Between- and Within- Industry Decomposition of the Increase in the Share of College Graduates in Employment, 1960 - 1996 (excel)
Table 4. Percent of Workers in Various Categories Who Directly Use a Computer at Work (excel)
Table 5. OLS First-Difference Panel Estimates of the Relationship Between Computerization and Educational Upgrading in 3-Digit Industries Between 1979 and 1993
Table 6. OLS First-Difference Estimates of the Relationship Between Computerization 1984 - 1993 and Growth in the College Wage-Bill Share in 3-Digit Industries 1960 - 1996
Table 7. Computers, Capital Intensity, R&D, and Skill Upgrading, 1960 - 1990 in Non-agricultural, Predominantly Private Sector Industries
Table 8. Change in the Nonproduction Worker Share of the Wage Bill in 450 Four-Digit Manufacturing Industries, 1959 - 1989*

Figure 1. Changes in Computer Use and Industry Work-Force Educational Shares

*Note on Table 8: Unfortunately, the variable dexpsh that is needed to generate columns 4-8 was lost in the process of compiling the table 8 materials. Therefore, the do-file only generates columns 1 through 3. See tab8.log for the columns tab8.do generates, and tab8_full.log for all the Table 8 columns (1-8).

 

The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz and Melissa S. Kearney
January 2006, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 96(2), May 2006, 189 - 194.

NBER working paper version (pdf file)

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Cleaning Programs

calc-occ-educ-meds (datasets) (do and log files)
calc-occ-wage-meds (datasets) (do and log files)
2000 Census (datasets) (do and log files)
1990 Census (datasets) (do and log files)
1980 Census (datasets) (do and log files)

Figures

Figure 1. Male and Female Log Hourly 90/50 and 50/10 Earnings Ratios (datasets) (do and log files) (graphs)
Figure 2. Changes in Male and Female Log Real Hourly Earnings by Percentile, 1973–1988 and 1988–2004
Figure 3. Smoothed Changes in Occupational Employment Shares 1980-2000, with Occupations Ranked by Their 1980 Median Wage (datasets) (do and log files) (graphs)
Figure 4. Smoothed Changes in Occupational Employment Shares 1980-2000, with Occupations Ranked by Their 1980 Average Years of Schooling. (datasets) (do and log files) (graphs)

 

Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century
David Autor, Daron Acemoglu and David Lyle
June 2004, Journal of Political Economy, 112(3)

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List of State Mobilization Rates (excel file)

Table 1. Characteristics of U.S. State Residents in Low-, Medium-, and High-Mobilization Rate States, 1940, 1950, and 1960 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 3. OLS Estimates of Impact f Female Labor Supply on Earnings: 1940-90 at Various Time Intervals (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 4. 1940 State-Level Determinants of WWII Mobilization Rates (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 5. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Labor Supply, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 6. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Female Labor Supply, 1940-50, Controlling for the Fraction of Males in Occupations and Industries in 1940 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 7. Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 8. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Female Labor Supply, 1940-50, 1950-60, and 1930-40 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 9. Instrumental Variables Specifications: Impact of Female Labor Supply on Female and Male Earnings, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 10. Impact of Female Labor Supply on Female/Male Earnings Differential, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 11. Impact of Female Labor Supply on Female and Male Full-Time Weekly Earnings, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table 12. Impact of Female Labor Supply on Male Education Earnings Differential, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)
Table A1. Impact of WWII Mobilization Rates on Female Labor Supply by Age, Education, and Cohort, 1940-50 (datasets) (do and log files)

 

The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(4), November 2003, 1279-1334.

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Table 1. Predictions of Task Model for the Impact of Computerization on Four Categories of Workplace Tasks (excel file)
Table 2. Means of Task Input by Decade and Decomposition into Within and Between Industry Components, 1960-1998
Table 3. Computerization and Industry Task Input, 1960-1998
Table 4. Computer Investment, Capital Intensity, and Task Input in Three-Digit Industries 1960-1998: Stacked First-Difference Estimates
Table 5. Computerization and Industry Task Input 1980-1998: Overall and by Education Group
Table 6. Computerization and Changes in Job Task Content Within Occupations 1977-1991
Table 7. Shifts in College-Equivalent Labor Demand Implied by Changes in Job Tasks, 1970-1999 (excel file)

Figure 1. Trends in Routine and Nonroutine Task Input, 1960 to 1998
Figure 2. Smoothed Differences between the Density of Nonroutine Task Input in 1960 and Subsequent Years

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Instructions (PDF file)
Consistent occupation crosswalk files
DOT means by occupation
Consistent industry crosswalk files
DOT means by industry

 

Labor Market Intermediation

Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing
David Autor
January 2003, Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21(1)

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Tables 2-9 (all tables)
Table 2. The Relationships among Occupational THS Penetration, Job Skills Training, and Employee Tenure in Detailed (Three-Digit) Occupations, 1995-2001
Table 3. The Estimated Impact of Common Law Exceptions to Employment at Will on THS Employment, 1979-95
Table 4. The Estimated Impact of Common Law Exceptions to Employment at Will on THS Employment, 1979-95: Testing the Impact of the Number of Doctrines versus the Specific Doctrines
Table 5. The Estimated Impact of the Implied Contract Exception to Employment at Will on THS Employment, 1979-95, Controlling for State Demographics
Table 6. The Estimated Impact of the Implied Contract Exception to Employment at Will on THS Employment by Time Period and Region
Table 7. The Estimated Impact of the Implied Contract Exception to Employment at Will on THS Employment, 1979-95, Controlling for State Demographics
Table 8. Union Penetration, the Implied Contract Exception to Employment at Will and State THS Employment, 1979-95
Table 9. The Implied Contract Exception to Employment at Will, Union Penetration, and Employment in the Business Services Sector, 1980–95

 

Disability and Labor Force Participation

The Rise in the Disability Rolls and the Decline in Unemployment
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), February 2003, 157 - 206.

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Table 1. Potential DI Income as a Percentage of Current Earnings for Nonelderly Males at Various Percentiles of the Wage Distribution, 1979 and 1999 (excel)
Table 2. DI Receipt and Labor Force Participation by Gender, Education, and Age 1979, 1984, AND 1999 (excel)
Table 3. Distribution of Qualifying Impairments of DI Awardees at Five-Year Intervals, 1983-1999 (excel)
Table 4. Change in DI Rolls and Labor Force Participation of Nonelderly Adults: OLS and Instrumental Variables Estimates (zip)
Table 5. Impact of Employment Losses on DI Applications Flows 1978-1998: Reduced-Form and Instrumental Variables Estimates (zip)
Table 6. Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Impact of Employment Losses on Labor Force Exit of High School Dropouts, 1979–1998
Table 7. Determinants of Growth in DI Rolls, 1984 –1998
Table 8. Determinants of Change in High School Dropout Labor Force Participation, 1984–1998

Figure 1. DI Termination Rates per 1000 BeneŽciaries by Reason, 1978–2000 (excel)
Figure 2. The Choice of Disability Applicant Status—Immediately, Conditional, Never—as a Function of Earnings and Health (excel)
Figure 3. Impact of Projected Log Employment Shocks on Disability Applications per 1000 Nonelderly Adults at Five-Year Intervals, 1979–1998
Figure 4. DI Awards and Current and Steady State Recipients per Nonelderly Adult Population, 1976–2001 (excel)

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SSDI and SSI recipients, applicants and awards by state and year (excel)

 

Labor Market Impacts of Wrongful Discharge Protections

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws
David H. Autor, John J. Donohue III and Stewart J. Schwab
Review of Economics and Statistics, 88(2), May 2006, 211 - 231.

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Table 1. Difference-in-Differences Estimates of the Impact of Wrongful Discharge Laws on State Employment-to-Population Ratio and Hourly Earnings: Contrasting Outcomes in Years 2 and 3 Following Adoption with Years 1 and 2 Preceding Adoption
Table 2. Difference-in-Differences Estimates of the Impact of Wrongful-Discharge Laws on Employment and Hourly Wages, 1978–1999: Contrasting the Impact of any Impact of any Doctrine Versus Specific Doctrines
Table 3. Difference-in-Differences Estimates of the Impact of Wrongful Discharge Laws on Employment-to-Population Ratios: Estimates by Adopter Cohorts, 1978-1999
Table 4. Difference-in-Differences Estimates of the Impact of Wrongful-Discharge Laws on Log Employment-to-Population Ratios for Years 1978-1999: Testing Sensitivity to Selection of Pre- and Post-Adoption Treatment Periods
Table 5. Estimates of the Impact of Wrongful-Discharge Laws on Log Employment-to-Population Ratios by Gender, Age and Education Subgroups, 1978-1999
Table 6. Difference-in-Differences Estimates of the Impact of Wrongful-Discharge Laws on Employment Levels, 1970-1999: Annual Estimates from the Current Population Survey and Current Employment Statistics
Table 7. Estimated Impact of Wrongful-Discharge Laws on Annual Job Flows in Manufacturing, 1973 to 1988

Table A1. Wrongful-Discharge Laws by Region, State, and Year (See downloads for wrongful-discharge legal data)
Table A2. Difference-in-Differences Estimates of the Impact of Wrongful-Discharge Laws on State Employment-to-Population Ratio and Hourly Earnings, 1978–1999: Models Excluding Previously Treated State-Month Observations from the Control Sample
Table A3. Relationship Between Job Creation and Destruction and Employment in Manufacturing, 1973 to 1988

All figures (1-3)

Figure 1. State Log Employment-to-Population Ratios Before and After Adoption of Implied-Contract Exception: Monthly Leads and Lags from 4 Years Before to 8 Years After Adoption
Figure 2. State Log Employment-to-Population Ratios Before and After Adoption of Public Policy Exception: Monthly Leads and Lags from 4 Years Before to 8 Years After Adoption
Figure 3. State Log Employment-to-Population Ratios Before and After Adoption of Good-Faith Exception: Monthly Leads and Lags from 4 Years Before to 8 Years After Adoption

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Case law (MSWord file)
Appendix Table A1 (MSExcel file)
Law dataset (dta file)