We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two … crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely on the random assignment of students to … deviation deterioration of the average grade. Further, the effect is heterogenous as female and higher income students seem …

throughout the period, partly explained by a rapid growth in demand for unskilled labour, which helped maintain low-skilled wages …-2001. We argue that for women, low-skilled wages were kept up by the introduction of the minimum wage in 2000, and high skilled … wages fell due to a rapid rise in the supply of highly qualified women. The Irish example shows that skill-biased technical …

redundancies. This results in superior predictions of individual wages and occupational switches. It also allows identifying career …

skills are valuable. We compare computer skills with writing and math skills and test whether wages vary with computer skills … has no substantial impact on wages. These estimates suggest that writing and math can be regarded as basic skills, but … that the higher wages of computer users are unrelated to computer skills. …

economies. Previous studies using industry aggregate data have found that industry wages are significantly more responsive than … Survey data for 1976 through 1998, we document that the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job … turnover and the strong consequences this has for the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers …