to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find that middle-skill occupations have traditionally been more …. Unemployed middle-skill workers also appear to have few attractive or feasible employment alternatives outside of their skill … middle-skill employment fluctuations should include industry-level employment effects and a labor force participation margin …

that dentists in those states have lower earnings and slower employment growth. Several sensitivity and falsification tests …

minimum wages depress employment, is not supported by the empirical findings in some labour markets. In this paper we present … employment, but which also allows for the possibility of a neutral or a positive effect. The model structure is based on labour … economic wisdom but in line with several recent studies, do not have a negative impact on employment. If anything, the …

Since the early 1980s, wage dispersion and the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment have increased significantly in … paper studies the wage and employment effects of technological changes of this type. The analysis is based on a model with a … constant at initial wages. Such a shock reduces total employment in the primary sector, as the equilibrium increase in skilled …