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Can We Have Pro-Worker AI? Choosing a path of machines in service of minds

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Learning from Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AI

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From Automation to Augmentation: Redefining Engineering Design and Manufacturing in the Age of NextGen-AI

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March 2023 (Revised November 2023)

The Unexpected Compression: Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market

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Changing Rent-Sharing in the Economy

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Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

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Growing Regional Disparities

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Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?

AEA Papers and Proceedings

May 2023

Daron Acemoglu, Gary Anderson, David Beede, Catherine Buffington, Eric Childress, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, Pascual Restrepo, Nikolas Zolas

Advanced Technology Adoption: Selection or Causal Effects?

Growing Regional Disparities

Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation

April 2023

David Autor, Christina Patterson, John Van Reenen

Local and National Concentration Trends in Jobs and Sales: The Role of Structural Transformation

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

March 2023

Daron Acemoglu, Hans Koster, Ceren Ozgen

Robots and Workers: Evidence from the Netherlands

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Patenting with the Stars: Where are Technology Leaders Leading the Labor Market?

February 2023

David Autor, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller

Patenting with the Stars: Where are Technology Leaders Leading the Labor Market?

Growing Regional Disparities

Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

January 2023

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson

Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

January 2023

Daron Acemoglu

Distorted Innovation: Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

Changing Rent-Sharing in the Economy

An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy

November 2022

David Autor, Ahu Yildirmaz

An Evaluation of the Paycheck Protection Program Using Administrative Payroll Microdata

Automation, Inequality, and Productivity

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

November 2022

Daron Acemoglu, Gary Anderson, David Beede, Cathy Buffington, Eric Childress, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, Pascual Restrepo, Nikolas Zolas

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

The rise of age-friendly jobs

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing

October 2022

Daron Acemoglu, Nicolaj Søndergaard Mühlbach, Andrew Scott

The rise of age-friendly jobs

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