demand for advanced cognitive skills ("skill downgrading"). Analyses of wage and employment data from the U.S. Current … education wage premiums with reference to two related explanations for changing U.S. employment patterns: (i) a shift away from …

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership … adults, and leadership skills command a higher wage premium within managerial occupations than other jobs. We find evidence …

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 …

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … equipping workers with the skills needed by the labour market can support employment and incomes. This will require a … picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has … financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings …

education, and stagnating income returns to human capital. This paper emphasizes conditional employment risks diversification as … re-employment probability, in addition to higher income for the better educated. Numerical solutions for optimal dynamic … investment in human capital are consistent with observed patterns, such as unemployment duration dependence (stigma), post-re-employment …