on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An …This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential …

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and … workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly … share the results with firms increases workseekers' employment and earnings. It also aligns their beliefs and search …

This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution …, de-skilling and possibly a jobless economy. Recent employment trends are often seen as indicative of mismatches between … rapidly changing demand for skills and slow adjustment in the supply. Despite a wealth of theoretical models and empirical …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

experienced a particularly pronounced decline in employment by international and historical standards, which makes it a valuable … an employee remains in employment, from one year to the next, is positively related to their monthly earnings during both … boom and bust. The gradient with wages, however, is much more marked during the bust and remains significantly so even …

employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage …

is far less pronounced than generally perceived. Manufacturing and service employment numbers based on the occupations of … effects, we cannot identify significant effects of import exposure on employment in manufacturing occupations. Using detailed … alternative employment option for workers with manufacturing occupations. We estimate the causal effects of a switch to the …