"culture" that embodies "a whole constellation of values, attitudes, skills, and contacts that are related to success in the …

returns respond to entry-level salaries (or opportunity wages) a relationship unexplored in work to date. Using data on …

Using panel data on U.S. MSAs, this paper estimates how a typical MSA's wages of different demographic groups, and … prices and wages. MSA unemployment has strong effects on MSA wages and prices, but the distribution of unemployment among … different groups has weak effects on wages and prices. Using these estimates, simulations show that targeting high …

wages by 1.4–13.0 percent, with the largest shifts among low skilled black men. Results suggest that employers substitute …

This paper discusses the role of public policy in the skills development system of the U.S. It further examines the … "system" for skills development in the United States as a two-tiered system: The "first-chance" or conventional system allows … that it has the world's leading level of worker productivity, there is a pervasive perception that the current system for …