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 …

on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …

effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An … investigation into the changes in employment shares reveals that female workers suffer less of a decline in routine cognitive jobs …

participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills …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 …