study, accumulate field-specific skills and receive noisy signals of match quality in these fields. With later … specialization, students have more time to learn about match quality in each field but less time to acquire specific skills once a …

by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions … their careers, while job mobility is important for workers who acquire skills in an apprenticeship scheme before labor …

-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). This chapter summarizes this research. We argue … that women's under-representation is concentrated in the math-intensive science fields of geosciences, engineering … affecting women and men as they progress through school, higher education, and into the labor market. Our results are consistent …

Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition … they believed their classmates would not see their responses, single and non-single women answered similarly. However …, single women reported desired yearly compensation $18,000 lower and being willing to travel seven fewer days per month and …

secure persistently superior performance via investments in better management and organization. We empirically analyze the … management is driven by two key organizational trade-offs: employee initiative vs. coordination as well as exploration of novel …

received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our …