emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …

) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment … better understanding of temporary skills-qualifications mismatch typical for student workers by analysing the preferences of … student vacancies require, on average, fewer skills than non-student positions, there is strong correlation between formal …

Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … labour-augmenting effect, increasing total manufacturing employment. The two-equation dynamic framework implemented to …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed …

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and … workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly … share the results with firms increases workseekers' employment and earnings. It also aligns their beliefs and search …