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 … 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 …

corporate bankruptcy for identification, we find that the adverse effects of job loss on future employment and earnings are more …

persistent employment and wage losses in regions where such occupations decline the most. Regional and occupational mobility …

This paper uses a social experiment in labour market policy - providing early and intensive monitoring and programme … participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in …

greater English language skills, whether measured by the level of these skills or the importance of English for performing the … is reduced by 50 percent, but is still large, when worker characteristics, including their own English language skills … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills …

develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

for natives. We examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates …