A vast literature aimed at understanding the nature and causes of wage inequality focuses on the skill premium as a key … object of interest. In an environment where both the skill premium and the share of skilled workers are changing, however …, the between-skill-group component of inequality may fall even as the skill premium rises - a pattern that is indeed …

; income distribution ; human capital ; skill allocation ; migration ; ethnicity ; minority ; Gini-coefficient …

the first time, a measure of the skill content of occupations for 10 low and middle-income countries. Following Autor …, non-routine interpersonal, and routine & manual skill groups. We find significant differences in the skill mix used by … that the rankings of occupations along the skill dimensions are quite stable across countries, and they correlate …

relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. Assuming capital-skill complementarity and fixed … relative wages as a consequence of labor market institutions, we argue that skill upgrading is more pronounced during downturns … an important role in explaining the shift in relative labor demand. -- rigid relative wages ; skill upgrading ; business …

changes in the skill premiums. Relative demand trends favored high-skilled workers during the 1990s, shifting in favor of low … factors behind these relative skill demand trends. …

penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … data, the panel approach addresses individual heterogeneity effects (motivation, ability, and compensating differentials … effects. Second, based on panel fixed effects analyses there is no penalty for overeducation for ESB immigrants. However, NESB …