Publications

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

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

Structural Demand Shifts and Potential Labor Supply Responses in the New Century
David Autor
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Conference Series No. 52: Labor Supply in the New Century, forthcoming

Does Employment Protection Reduce Productivity? Evidence from US States
David H. Autor, William R. Kerr and Adriana D. Kugler
The Economic Journal, 117, June 2007, F189 - F217.

Distinguishing Income from Substitution Effects in Disability Insurance
David Autor and Mark Duggan
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 97(2), 119-124.

The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding
David H. Autor and Mark G. Duggan
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20(3), Summer 2006 71 - 96.

Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?
David Autor and Susan Houseman
2006. in Rebecca Blank, Sheldon Danziger and Robert Schoeni (eds.) Working but Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-Wage Workers, New York: Russell Sage

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.

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

The Employment Consequences of Wrongful-Discharge Laws: Large, Small, or None at All?
David H. Autor, John J. Donohue III and Stewart J. Schwab
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 95(2), May 2005, 440 - 446

Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century
Daron Acemoglu, David H. Autor and David Lyle
Journal of Political Economy, 112(3), June 2004, 497-551.

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

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

Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment
Journal of Labor Economics. 21(1), January 2003, 1 - 42.

Upstairs Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank
David Autor, Richard Murnane and Frank Levy
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 55 (3), April 2002.

Why do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116 (4), November 2001, 1409-1448.

Wiring the Labor Market
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(1), Winter 2001, 35 - 40.

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.

Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality
Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol 3A, Amsterdam, North Holland, 1999.