Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … by a period of sharp deflation where nominal wages and prices fell by 30 percent and unemployment increased from 5 to 30 … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while …

modest, effect on future employment growth. …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …