contractual frictions due to limited liability, firms with heterogeneous productivity endogenously sort into different pay …, inducing resources reallocated from low productivity domestic firms to high productivity exporting .rms. The uneven effects of …

unobserved skilldistributions. The main findings are that there are two dimensions to self-selection: in terms ofobserved skills … skilled workers, leading to negative self-selection. In terms ofunobservable skills, self-selection is found to be positive … rather than negative. The latter findingentails substantial increases in mean wages and reduction in wage inequality …

of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …

and the effect of trade on wages. This paper develops a multi-sector assignment model with both heterogeneous labor and a … non-labor input in which high skill agents match with high input productivity sectors where they can best leverage their … talent. When the ranking of sectors by input productivity differs across countries, their ranking by workforce skill also …

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …