Document Type
Article
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the relationship between technological change and unemployment across the United States. Building on previous research, I run a two-stage least- squares regression that links technological change to unemployment. Technological change is proxied with commercially-supplied research and development expenditures. I acquire data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on unemployment rates and data from the National Science Foundation on research and development expenditures from 2002-2013 for each state. Control variables include GDP, the minimum wage, education expenditures, violent crime and property crime rates, union coverage, unemployment benefits, and poverty rates. I find evidence that technological change displaces labor in the United States, but the magnitude of the effect is small.
Publication Date
Spring 2018
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
20
Issue
1
First Page
87
Last Page
101
Copyright
©2018 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Krousie, Courtney
(2018)
"Technological Unemployment in the United States: A State-Level Analysis,"
Major Themes in Economics, 20, 87-101.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol20/iss1/6