Friday, 22 March 2019

Work of the past, work of the future

a column by David Autor for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

Labour markets in US cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were 50 years ago, but urban non-college workers now perform much less skilled work than they did.

This column shows that automation and international trade have eliminated many of the mid-skilled non-college jobs that were disproportionately based in cities.

This has contributed to a secular fall in real non-college wages.

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