development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a “Solovian zone“ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …

separation decisions to be analyzed separately from wage setting. The tenure profiles in wages implied by the model fit the …

This paper provides a new way of analyzing tenure profiles in wages, by modelling simultaneously the evolution of wages … we observe outside wages only at job start and job separation, our empirical analysis of within job wage growth is based … on expected wage growth conditional on the outside wages at both dates. Our modelling allows testing of the efficient …

employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant …