nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace …. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … ends of the age spectrum, with some marked regional differences. The female employment rate is especially low, in part due …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …

United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of … occupations in which communication skills -- active listening, negotiation, persuasion, reading comprehension, speaking, and …

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …

-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …

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 …