employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … existence of communities of immigrants before 1960, as instruments. We find no evidence that immigrants crowded-out employment …-biased technology as the theory of directed technologial change would predict. Combining these effects, an increase in employment in a …

investment boom of 1995-2000 drew many younger and less-educated workers into employment. Employment rates for these workers …

creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a … more compressed wage distribution than the US. The fact that jobless Germans have nearly the same skills as employed …. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …

International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …

In addition to providing useful skills, education may also yield valuable information about one's tastes and talents … different fields of study, accumulate field-specific skills and receive noisy signals of match quality to these fields … specific skills, the model predicts more switching in a regime with late specialization because the cost of switching is lower …

retirement reduces the incentive of older workers to acquire new skills. The Health and Retirement Study shows, further, that … workers planning later retirement choose to acquire computer skills. Instrumental variables estimates suggest that computer …

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …

whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …

Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory … of extensive railroad network. Using a newly created data set of manufacturing establishments linked to county level data … on rail access from 1850-70, we ask whether the coming of the railroad increased establishment size in manufacturing …