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Working Papers

2010

1. How Technology Changes Demands for Human Skills
   OECD Education Working Papers, OECD Publishing View citations (11)

2007

2. Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (108)

2001

3. The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (71)
   See also Journal Article The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2003) View citations (3121) (2003)

2000

4. Upstairs, Downstairs: Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (24)

1995

5. Are Lots of College Graduates Taking High School Jobs? A Reconsiderationof the Evidence
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
6. The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (560)
   See also Journal Article The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (1995) View citations (566) (1995)

Journal Articles

2018

1. Computers and populism: artificial intelligence, jobs, and politics in the near term
   Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2018, 34, (3), 393-417 View citations (14)

2012

2. Addressing the Problem of Stagnant Wages
   Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54, (4), 739-764 View citations (4)

2010

3. Offshoring Professional Services: Institutions and Professional Control
   British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2010, 48, (4), 758-783 View citations (8)

2007

4. The Failed Promise
   Challenge, 2007, 50, (6), 6-13

2006

5. For now, middle-skilled jobs are the most vulnerable
   CESifo Forum, 2006, 7, (02), 38-38

2003

6. The Roaring Nineties: Can Full Employment Be Sustained?, edited by Alan B. Krueger and Robert M. Solow. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and the Century Foundation Press, 2001, 592 pp., $49.95
   Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003, 22, (2), 332-334
7. The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2003, 118, (4), 1279-1333 View citations (3121)
   Also in Proceedings, 2003, (Nov) (2003) View citations (3053)
   See also Working Paper The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration, NBER Working Papers (2001) View citations (71) (2001)

2002

8. Upstairs downstairs: how introducing computer technology changed skills and pay on two floors of Cabot Bank
   Regional Review, 2002, 12, (Q 2), 22-30 View citations (2)
9. Upstairs, Downstairs: Computers and Skills on Two Floors of a Large Bank
   ILR Review, 2002, 55, (3), 432-447 View citations (134)

2001

10. Will Standards-Based Reforms Improve the Education of Students of Color?
    National Tax Journal, 2001, 54, (2), 401-16 View citations (5)

1998

11. Standards, information, and the demand for student achievement
    Economic Policy Review, 1998, 4, (Mar), 117-124 View citations (1)

1996

12. Book reviews
    Journal of Economics, 1996, 64, (3), 325-335
13. With What Skills Are Computers a Complement?
    American Economic Review, 1996, 86, (2), 258-62 View citations (103)

1995

14. The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1995, 77, (2), 251-66 View citations (566)
    See also Working Paper The Growing Importance of Cognitive Skills in Wage Determination, NBER Working Papers (1995) View citations (560) (1995)
15. The future path and consequences of the U.S. earnings/education gap
    Economic Policy Review, 1995, (Jan), 35-41 View citations (2)

1994

16. Comment: Stimulating employer-provided general training
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1994, 13, (1), 75-81

1992

17. U.S. Earnings Levels and Earnings Inequality: A Review of Recent Trends and Proposed Explanations
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1992, 30, (3), 1333-81 View citations (670)

1989

18. The Truly Disadvantaged, by William Julius Wilson. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1987, 254 pp. Price: $19.95 cloth
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1989, 8, (2), 341-344

1986

19. Work for Welfare: How Much Good Will It Do?
    American Economic Review, 1986, 76, (2), 399-404 View citations (1)

1982

20. Sources of Growth in Local Government Employment: California, 1964-78
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (2), 278-82

1980

21. Changes in Employment Prospects for Black Males
    Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1980, 11, (2), 513-538 View citations (3)

1979

22. The Labor Supply of Female Household Heads, or AFDC Work Incentives Don't Work Too Well
    Journal of Human Resources, 1979, 14, (1), 76-97 View citations (22)

1971

23. Toward a Rational Theory of Decentralization: Another View*
    American Political Science Review, 1971, 65, (1), 172-179 View citations (1)

Chapters

2017

1. Comments
   A chapter in Education, Skills, and Technical Change: Implications for Future US GDP Growth, 2017, pp 287-292

1989

2. Recent Trends in US Earnings and Family Incomes
   A chapter in NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1989, Volume 4, 1989, pp 73-120 View citations (2)

1985

3. Happiness, Affluence, and Altruism in the Postwar Period
   A chapter in Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being, 1985, pp 7-34 View citations (1)