Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for ...

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIESSKILLS, Tasks AND technologies : Implications FOR EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGSD aron AcemogluDavid AutorWorking Paper 16082 BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH1050 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA 02138 June 2010We thank Amir Kermani for outstanding research assistance and Melanie Wasserman for persistent,meticulous and ingenious work on all aspects of the chapter. We are indebted to Arnaud Costinot andDavid Dorn for insightful comments and suggestions, and to David Dorn, Nicole Fortin, and MaartenGoos for generous assistance with data. Autor acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation(CAREER award SES-0239538).The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarilyreflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies officialNBER publications.

skills, there has been an increase in the (relative) demand for skills. Following Tinbergen’s pioneering (1974, 1975) work, the relative demand for skills is then linked to technology, and in particular to the skill bias of technical change. This perspective emphasizes that the return to skills (and to college)

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