What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Law
- World War II
- Labour economics
David H. Autor focuses on Labour economics, Technological change, Wage, Labor demand and Supply and demand.
His Labour economics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Dismissal, Competition, Polarization, Earnings and Unemployment.
His research integrates issues of Capital, Cognitive psychology, Wage share and Elementary cognitive task in his study of Technological change.
His research in Wage intersects with topics in Minimum wage, Survey data collection and Human capital.
His Labor demand study combines topics in areas such as Task and Industrial organization.
His study in Supply and demand is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Technical change, Economic mobility and Public policy.
His most cited work include:
- The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration (2450 citations)
- Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market? (1581 citations)
- Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality (1527 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of investigation include Labour economics, Earnings, Wage, Technological change and Demographic economics.
His Labour economics research incorporates themes from Productivity, Competition and Unemployment.
His Earnings study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Social security, Disability insurance, Supply and demand, Percentage point and Distribution.
The Wage study combines topics in areas such as Minimum wage, Econometrics, Income distribution and Polarization.
His Technological change study incorporates themes from Production, Task, Globalization and Specialization.
His Demographic economics research includes elements of Test, Conceptual framework and Disability benefits.
He most often published in these fields:
- Labour economics (103.41%)
- Earnings (44.89%)
- Wage (38.07%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2020)?
- Labour economics (103.41%)
- Competition (26.99%)
- Demographic economics (35.23%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary scientific interests are in Labour economics, Competition, Demographic economics, Wage share and Gender gap.
His Labour economics research incorporates elements of Technological change, Value and Globalization.
David H. Autor combines subjects such as Shock, China and International economics with his study of Competition.
His work carried out in the field of Demographic economics brings together such families of science as Earnings and Disability benefits.
His work in Wage share addresses subjects such as Fall of man, which are connected to disciplines such as Core, Market share and Private sector.
As part of one scientific family, David H. Autor deals mainly with the area of Wage, narrowing it down to issues related to the Deskilling, and often Polarization.
Between 2015 and 2020, his most popular works were:
- The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade (275 citations)
- The China Shock: Learning from Labor-Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade (275 citations)
- Import competition and the great U.S. employment sag of the 2000s (258 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
Labour economics, Competition, Gender gap, Technological change and Disadvantage are his primary areas of study.
His Labour economics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Earnings, Value and Globalization.
His studies deal with areas such as Receipt, Transfer payment, Welfare and Disability insurance as well as Earnings.
His studies in Competition integrate themes in fields like Labor demand, Shock and International economics.
His research integrates issues of Technological unemployment and Multidisciplinary approach in his study of Technological change.
While the research belongs to areas of Wage, he spends his time largely on the problem of Human capital, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Polarization.
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