Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … skills, while firms require and value different combinations of these skills. Assuming that match productivity exhibits … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school …

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …

This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and … the complementarity between skills and cities …

. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … workings of the labour market, supporting the case for tighter coordination between employment and immigration policies to …

for by measured and unmeasured worker skills. These results suggest that wage differences across occupations with …

youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … poor youth. Initially, the program leads to a 29 percentage point increase in the employment rate of the trained graduates …. However, two to six months after the training, the employment effect of the program drops to zero. A third of the placed …

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption … that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i … 50 percent. Those researchers wishing to analyze the economic consequences of non-cognitive skills should consider (i …