El autor del presente estudio ha colaborado estrechamente en el proyecto desde 1977.
Messrs Autor and Duggan show that DI awards have become more attractive to those struggling in the labour market.
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Mr Autor's data suggest that as many as 10% of those losing employment following an import shock obtain Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
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One analysis, by David Autor at MIT and colleagues, suggests that in manufacturing the impact of trade with China could be much bigger.
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No, the lesson from Autor et al is not that trade with China should be prevented, or that losers from trade need more compensation.
In a forthcoming paper in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Susan Houseman of the W.E.
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"We estimate there are several hundred unapproved drugs out there, " said Deborah Autor, director of the office of compliance within the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
But the rolls grew quickly even when the share of 50- to 64-year-olds was steady, according to David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mark Duggan of the University of Maryland.
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But as David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, points out in a new paper on labour market polarisation, fading union power has been more the effect than the cause of occupational shifts.
Mr Autor and Mark Duggan of the University of Maryland propose emulating the Dutch, who have made disability insurance less of a one-way street by putting employers on the hook for the first few years' payments.
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David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine.
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