A paper coauthored by Institute economist Brad Hershbein and Lisa B. Kahn of Yale University appears in the latest issue of American Economic Review. In "Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings," Hershbein and Kahn use data from Burning Glass Technologies to investigate how the demand for skills changed during the Great Recession.
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