Most cited papers in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
What are the most cited papers in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality?
The most cited paper in Labor market dynamics and wage inequality is "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital" (Jenell S. Coleman, 2000), with 21,799 citations. Next come "The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?" (8,640) and "Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research" (7,495).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 1,077 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital Jenell S. Coleman · Elsevier eBooks | 2000 | 21,799 |
| 2 | The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael A. Osborne · Technological Forecasting and Social Change | Oct 2016 | 8,640 |
| 3 | Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research Vincent Tinto · Review of Educational Research | Mar 1975 | 7,495 |
| 4 | The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration David Autor, Frank Levy, Richard J. Murnane · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 2003 | 6,165 |
| 5 | Interaction terms in logit and probit models Chunrong Ai, Edward C. Norton · Economics Letters | 19 May 2003 | 5,849 |
| 6 | Economics and Identity* George A. Akerlof, Rachel E. Kranton · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 2000 | 5,719 |
| 7 | Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education Gary S. Becker · SSRN Electronic Journal | 1964 | 5,169 |
| 8 | Towards an understanding of inequity. J. Stacy Adams · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology | Nov 1963 | 5,157 |
| 9 | Measurement Invariance, Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance William H. Meredith · Psychometrika | Dec 1993 | 4,598 |
| 10 | Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors Lawrence F. Katz, Kevin Murphy · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1992 | 4,586 |
| 11 | The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States David Autor, David A. Dorn, Gordon Hanson · American Economic Review | Oct 2013 | 4,509 |
| 12 | The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market David Autor, David A. Dorn · American Economic Review | Aug 2013 | 3,871 |
| 13 | Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · Journal of Political Economy | 2 Aug 2019 | 3,861 |
| 14 | Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998 Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 2003 | 3,853 |
| 15 | Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange George A. Akerlof · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1982 | 3,232 |
| 16 | A standard international socio-economic index of occupational status Harry B. G. Ganzeboom, Paul M. de Graaf, Donald J. Treiman · Social Science Research | Mar 1992 | 3,164 |
| 17 | Returns to investment in education: A global update George Psacharopoulos · World Development | Sep 1994 | 3,160 |
| 18 | The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs James J. Heckman, Robert Lalonde, Jeffrey Andrew Smith · Handbook of labour economics | 1999 | 3,123 |
| 19 | The Technology of Skill Formation Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman · American Economic Review | Apr 2007 | 3,103 |
| 20 | The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · American Economic Review | Jun 2018 | 3,064 |
| 21 | The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn · Journal of Economic Literature | Sep 2017 | 3,052 |
| 22 | Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill Chinhui Juhn, Kevin Murphy, Brooks Pierce · Journal of Political Economy | Jun 1993 | 2,854 |
| 23 | The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men Barry R. Chiswick · Journal of Political Economy | Oct 1978 | 2,824 |
| 24 | The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Robert J. Shimer · American Economic Review | Feb 2005 | 2,818 |
| 25 | The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs* Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dubé, Attila Lindner et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 2019 | 2,685 |
| 26 | A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter Claudia Dale Goldin · American Economic Review | Apr 2014 | 2,658 |
| 27 | Unhappiness and Unemployment Andrew Eric Clark, Andrew J. Oswald · The Economic Journal | May 1994 | 2,574 |
| 28 | Performance Pay and Productivity Edward P. Lazear · American Economic Review | Dec 2000 | 2,557 |
| 29 | Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2019 | 2,501 |
| 30 | Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists David Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Melissa Schettini Kearney · The Review of Economics and Statistics | 18 Apr 2008 | 2,433 |
| 31 | What Makes an Entrepreneur? David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald · Journal of Labor Economics | 1998 | 2,371 |
| 32 | The Causal Effect of Education on Earnings David Card · Handbook of labour economics | 1999 | 2,234 |
| 33 | The Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis and Unemployment George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 1990 | 2,215 |
| 34 | Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality Daron Acemoğlu · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1998 | 2,155 |
| 35 | Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring Maarten Goos, Alan Manning, Anna Salomons · American Economic Review | Aug 2014 | 2,094 |
| 36 | Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market Daron Acemoğlu · Journal of Economic Literature | Mar 2002 | 2,087 |
| 37 | Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality Lawrence F. Katz, David Autor · Handbook of labour economics | 1999 | 2,072 |
| 38 | The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment: the Aggregate Evidence Olivier Jean Blanchard, Justin J. Wolfers · The Economic Journal | Mar 2000 | 2,007 |
| 39 | Robots at Work Georg Graetz, Guy Michaels · The Review of Economics and Statistics | 16 Jul 2018 | 1,977 |
| 40 | Who Creates Jobs? Small versus Large versus Young John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Javier Miranda · The Review of Economics and Statistics | 15 May 2012 | 1,964 |
| 41 | Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility Miles Corak · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Aug 2013 | 1,919 |
| 42 | Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U. S. Manufacturing: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufactures Eli Berman, John Bound, Zvi Griliches · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 1994 | 1,909 |
| 43 | The Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition for Linear Regression Models Ben Jann · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata | Dec 2008 | 1,885 |
| 44 | Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market? David Autor, Lawrence F. Katz, Alan B. Krueger · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1998 | 1,853 |
| 45 | Gross Job Creation, Gross Job Destruction, and Employment Reallocation Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1992 | 1,801 |
| 46 | Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians Claudia Dale Goldin, Cecilia Elena Rouse · American Economic Review | Sep 2000 | 1,792 |
| 47 | Skill‐Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles David Card, John DiNardo · Journal of Labor Economics | Oct 2002 | 1,735 |
| 48 | CEO gender, corporate risk-taking, and the efficiency of capital allocation Mara Faccio, Maria‐Teresa Marchica, Roberto Mura · Journal of Corporate Finance | 10 Mar 2016 | 1,699 |
| 49 | On discrimination and the decomposition of wage differentials Ronald L. Oaxaca, Michael R. Ransom · Journal of Econometrics | Mar 1994 | 1,688 |
| 50 | The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market* David J Deming · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | 3 Jun 2017 | 1,687 |
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