at 16 years of experience when their wages are 52% (24%) greater than those whose parents both have only 5 (10) years of …

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. …

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 …

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 …

entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. Real wages increased throughout the wage …

at 16 years of experience when their wages are 52% (24%) greater than those whose parents both have only 5 (10) years of …