understate the actual rate of assimilation because of the sharp decline in the relative wages of unskilled U.S. workers. We also …

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and …

greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …This paper argues that rigid wages cannot provide the underpinnings of a universally valid theory of the business cycle …, simply because wages are not universally rigid. Several different statistical techniques suggest that wage rates in the U …

of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities … workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …

-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages … (employment) at proximate stores decrease by 4% (2.1%). Exits, especially of young and small stores, increase, and entry decreases …

that, while average entry wages fell again after 2000, correcting for simple changes in the composition of new immigrants …, the unexplained rise in entry wages has persisted …

In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we … review patterns of U.S. employment in STEM occupations among workers with at least a college degree. These patterns mirror … peaked around the year 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble. STEM employment shares are just now approaching these …