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Autor, David H.·2019·AEA Papers and Proceedings
DOI 10.1257/pandp.20191110
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US cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were five decades ago. Yet, urban non-college workers perform substantially less skilled jobs than decades earlier. This deskilling reflects the joint effects of automation and, secondarily, rising international trade, which have eliminated the bulk of non-college production, administrative support, and clerical jobs, yielding a disproportionate polarization of urban labor markets. The unwinding of the urban non-college occupational skill gradient has, I argue, abetted a secular fall in real non-college wages by: (1) shunting non-college workers out of specialized middle-skill occupations into low-wage occupations that require only generic skills; (2) diminishing the set of non-college workers that hold middle-skill jobs in high-wage cities; and (3) attenuating, to a startling degree, the steep urban wage premium for non-college workers that prevailed in earlier decades. Changes in the nature of work--many of which are technological in origin--have been more disruptive and less beneficial for non-college than college workers.

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  3. Costa Dora L, 2000, Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940

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Authors
Autor, D. H.
Affiliations
National Bureau of Economic Research (US)
Corresponding author
Autor, David H.
ORCID
Autor, David H.
Venue
AEA Papers and Proceedings
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2019-05-01
Volume
109
Pages
1-32
ISSN
  • 2574-0768 (ISSN-L)
  • 2574-0776
DOI
10.1257/pandp.20191110
OpenAlex
W2917662199
Cited by
435
References
42
Citations by year
2026: 63 · 2025: 79 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 43 · 2022: 53 · 2021: 56 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 11
FWCI
52.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Agglomeration and Urban Systems
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Economy and Work Transformation
Keywords
deskilling, automation, international trade, urban wage premium, low-wage employment, technological change

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