Human Resources officers report occupational shortage to be the main cause of unfilled vacancies. Yet, it is not clear whether these are empty complaints or actually lead to effective wage and employment adjustments over time. By crossing data from the UK Employer Skill Survey with the UK Labor...

The role of technological change in labor market polarization is a debated issue and has been subject to recent critique. This paper finds that RBTC can account for wage and job polarization in the US from the 1980s to the 2010s. It also demonstrates that RBTC is consistent with the timing of...

The role of technological change in labor market polarization has been subject to recent critique. This paper finds that changes in production technology played an important role in wage and job polarization in the US. It also demonstrates that such technological change is consistentwith the...

Aggregate road crash costs are traditionally determined using average costs applied to incidence figures found in Police-notified crash data. Such data only comprise a non-random sample of the true population of road crashes, the bias being due to the existence of crashes that are not notified...