Computer-based technological change and skill demands: Reconciling the perspectives of economists and sociologists

Low-Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 121-154

  Autor, David H ^a   Levy, Frank ^a   Murnane, Richard J ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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