skills into occupations prevents credible identification of polarization’s effect on wages. I solve the selection …-bias problem by studying the changes in returns to occupation-specific skills instead of the changes in occupational wages using …-determined test scores, which predict occupational sorting and thus measure relative occupation-specific skills. My estimation …

in Kyrgyzstan, who cumulated a high risk of being unemployed, of remaining longer in unemployment, of being discouraged …

. Disaggregation by gender is necessary. Endogeneity of participation levels with respect to unemployment is treated in two ways, by … unemployment cannot be rejected. …

procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …

genuinely over-educated graduates principally lack non-academic skills such as management and leadership. Additionally, genuine … over-education increases unemployment by three months but has no impact of the number of jobs held. Individual unobserved …