The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …

Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new … losses in long-run aggregate productivity operating through the human capital channel could be at about 7% if the war lasts …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile. …

total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …