required in later employment. Our findings reveal a postdoc salary penalty when task mismatch is high, which is frequent, and a …

This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When … job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a … training on wage rates at each firm which leverage information on firm-specific wages. We illustrate our partial identification …

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 …

with a review of the canonical model of education and the wage structure pioneered by Tinbergen (1975) and developed more …). The canonical model does a surprisingly good job of predicting changes in the wage structure in the U.S. and other … of technology and does a better job of fitting non-monotonic changes in the wage structure. Yet the task framework does …