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 …

offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …

offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 …

do immigrants fare with respect to wages, employment, and occupational choices; are immigrants in competition with the … has not taken place to a full extent. Overall, immigrants hardly affect the wages and employment levels of natives, and …

differential choices of intensity of search for better employers arising from comparative advantage and time-increasing search …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey …, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per … challenges in identification arising from unobserved individual heterogeneity in the acquisition of ICT skills, we develop an …

who can signal their high level of specific skills earn seven to ten percent more than identical students lacking such a … signal. The signal allows workers to find jobs in more productive firms and sectors that better use their skills. The …