Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control …

become more likely to start relatively capital-intensive household enterprises. …

flexibility in existing matches. But this is not true in our model. If wages of matched workers are stuck too high in a recession …

Job losses during the Great Recession were concentrated among middle-skill workers, the same group that over the long … cyclical than other occupations, in part because of the volatile industries that tend to employ middle-skill workers …. Unemployed middle-skill workers also appear to have few attractive or feasible employment alternatives outside of their skill …

call the second effect, "making do with less," that is, getting more effort from fewer workers. Using data spanning June … productivity due to effort and sorting. For this firm, the second effect--that workers' effort increases--dominates the first …

-production workers - and "low-skill" - operatives and laborers increased. De-skilling did not occur in the aggregate economy; rather, the … skill (white collar) workers grew more rapidly than the supply starting well before the Civil War. …