High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E … aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …

wage growth. This paper analyzes the sources of the changing shape of the lower-tail of the U.S. wage and employment …After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings …

) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …

, however has not been identified empirically. I suggest that employment during adolescence promotes the formation of character …

most countries, so that agriculture is still the dominant sector of employment for most young men and women. We model …

capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per …