expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …

and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade … firms restrict employment to keep wages low, resulting in too many firms that are on average too small. Offshoring on the …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand … for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill …