wages and the demand for skills"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site … wages for over five million workers in sixteen Latin American economies, the authors estimate national and industry …

account for individual differences in young adults' capacities to acquire such skills and be productive in the work force …

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …

reflects differences in individual skills and other non-skill shocks. We consider heterogeneity in both initial skills and … within generations to identify and estimate the intergenerational correlation structure for initial skills and skill growth …) variation in earnings conditional on skills. Both earnings and skill IGEs decline substantially for more recent cohorts and are …

structure of trade and development. Using data on employment and wages for over seven million workers from sixteen Latin … with the skill premium at the industry level, a result that supports recent trade models linking exports with wages and the … demand for skills …

first estimates of worker-firm match quality using output data as opposed to inferring productivity from wages or employment … durations. Because teacher wages are essentially unrelated to productivity, this is compelling evidence that workers may seek …