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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.

Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists
David H. Autor, Lawrence F. Katz and Melissa S. Kearney
May 2008, Review of Economics and Statistics

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.

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)

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

 

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)

 

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.

 

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.