Demand for less skilled workers decreased dramatically in the US and in other developed countries over the past two …-biased technological change the greater the increase in the embodied supply of less skilled workers and the greater the depressing effect … find strong supporting evidence. First, across the OECD, most industries have increased the proportion of skilled workers …

. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out …

This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the … United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We … relationship between trade and labor income risk. Importantly, by contrasting estimates from various sub-samples of workers, such …

What are the characteristics of workers in jobs likely to be initially affected by broad social distancing and later by … ATUS. Our main finding is that workers in low-work-from-home or high-physical- proximity jobs are more economically … workers predicted to be employed in low work-from-home jobs experienced greater declines in employment according to the March …

Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

Academics, the media, and policymakers have all raised concerns about the implications of human workers being replaced … workers. We show that this flexibility can help new firms overcome uncertainty and increase entrepreneurial entry. We develop …

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for … unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of … relations systems offer workers. Our measure of needs has similar properties across countries and is the single most important …