Almost all studies of skilled/unskilled employment over the 1980s use data on manuals and non-manuals to measure skill …. This paper constructs data on skilled/unskilled employment using occupational data from the UK New Earnings Survey Panel …, subcontracting etc. The major findings are: (a) the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment rose by 4.4%; (b) the averaging effect …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

This paper investigates the impact of innovation on employment using a panel of UK manufacturing firms and a headcount … bargains. Innovation is found to have positive effect on company employment raising it by 9--12% in the short run and up to 40 … higher employment growth from new products and processes. …