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Does Automation Drive the Labor Market?, Accessible Data
Figure 1
This figure consists of two panels. In the left hand panel is a plot of the change in the log wage of an occupation from 1980-2005 (vertical axis) against the occupation's place in the 1980 wage distribution (horizontal axis, ranking by percentiles). The plots contains a single line representing a smoothed kernel computed from occupation-level data. The line is increasing over the bottom 15 percent of the wage distribution, after which wage changes become decreasing in the 1980 wage percentile. The line is relatively flat between the 40th and 60th percentiles of the 1980 wage distribution, before increasing sharply thereafter.
In right hand panel is a plot of the change in the employment share of an occupation from 1980-2005 (vertical axis) against the occupation's place in the 1980 wage distribution (horizontal axis, ranking by percentiles). The plots contains a single line representing a smoothed kernel computed from occupation-level data. The line is increase over the bottom 20 percent of the 1980 wage distribution, thereafter the line is increasing between the 20th and 55th percentiles of the 1980 wage distribution (approximately). The line is flat around the 60th percentile of the 1980 wage distribution, then decreases until it reaches the 85th percentile (approximately), and is increasing thereafter.
Figure 2
This figure consists of two panels. In the left hand panel is a plot of the change in the log wage of an occupation from 1980-2005 (vertical axis) against the occupation's place in the 1980 wage distribution (horizontal axis, ranking by percentiles). In right hand panel is a plot of the change in the employment share of an occupation from 1980-2005 (vertical axis) against the occupation's place in the 1980 wage distribution (horizontal axis, ranking by percentiles). Each of the two panels contains the smoothed kernels plotted in Figure 1. The two panels also contain the occupation-level data used to generate these plots (represented by dots the two plots). The scale of the vertical axis in each plot is larger than in figure 1 in order to fit all of the occupation-level observations. When the occupation-level data is overlaid in this fashion, the two smoothed kernels appear to be nearly flat lines. No clear trend is evidence in the occupation-level dots.
Figure 3
This figure consists of two scatter plots. On the left hand is a scatter plot of the change in the log wage of an occupation from 1980-2005 (vertical axis) against the occupation's routine task intensity measure (horizontal axis). In right hand is a scatter plot of the change in the employment share of an occupation from 1980-2005 (vertical axis) against the occupation's Routine Task Intensity measure (horizontal axis). Neither of the scatter plots shows a clear trend
Figure 4
This figure consists of two scatter plots. On the left hand is a scatter plot of the log wage of an occupation in 1980 (vertical axis) against the occupation's complexity index (horizontal axis). In right hand is a scatter plot of the change in the log wage of an occupation from 1980-2005 (vertical axis) against the occupation's complexity index (horizontal axis). Both scatter show a clear upward trend.