Essays on the Changing Labor Market: Computerization, Inequality, and the Development of the Contingent Work Force: Dissertation Summary

Authors

David H. Autor, Harvard UniversityFollow

Award Type

Honorable Mention

Dissertation Advisor

Lawrence Katz

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Abstract

The essays in this dissertation explore the causes and consequences of three prominent U.S. labor market developments of the 1980s and 1990s: the rapid advent of workplace computerization, the historic rise in earnings inequality, and the unprecedented growth of temporary help supply employment (THS).

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