MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Statistics in Ancient History 

      Temin, Peter (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-02-13)
      This paper uses new data to extend the argument that there was an integrated wheat market in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. I explore the meaning of randomness when data are scarce, and I investigate how ...

    • Cyclical Unemployment Structural Unemployment 

      Diamond, Peter (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-01-15)
      Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This essay views the Beveridge ...

    • The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets" An Overview 

      Autor, David (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-01-24)
      An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace “tasks” between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries ...