show that a frictionless model with realistic heterogeneity can replicate the mean wage increase and employment collapse of … reallocation of different workers across tasks and into employment. This ensures that there nearly always exists some combination … of task-specific demand shocks that induce aggregate employment and wages to negatively comove even in a frictionless …

education, and how immigrants overcome the cultural and language gaps to find employment.--Publisher's description …

of Income and Education. Higher relative wage offers are found to reduce the probability of a youth enrolling in school … that wage rate offers by firms are higher for full-time than for part-timework. Job availability, as measured by the local … for nonwhite males, accounting, in the extreme, for a difference in this probability of almost 50 percent. Since a wage …

education, and how immigrants overcome the cultural and language gaps to find employment. …

evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …