This paper uses evidence on employment, labor force, and wage differentials by education from OECD countries to investigate the characteristics and the consequences of a skill-biased shift in the structure of labor demand and supply. The empirical analysis shows that there has been some increase...

In this paper, the impact that receipt of unemployment benefit has on job-search effort is investigated. Utilizing data drawn from the 1984 Labor Force Survey, reduced-form search-effort equations are estimated conditional on the decision to seek work. After controlling for potential selectivity...