as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …. Second, we study the effect of local skills on productivity controlling for skills at the firm. We find a positive and robust …

capital investment by crucially investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages - this has come to be an … reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of …

Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees … equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls sharply after controlling for occupational skills. Longitudinal estimates … support a "quality sorting" explanation, with racial density serving as an index of unmeasured skills. Although past …

female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …

This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West …

knowledge are most influential in explaining earnings variations. Marketable skills actually acquired in school depend on these …

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled … workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of …)cognitive skills ; family policy ; training policy ; active labor market policy ; tax policy ; benefit systems ; pension policy …

process build skills and improve their employability. If these "learning" effects are large enough, the social benefits of …