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 …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …

Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …

Measured by changes in real wages, earnings inequality and unemployment, the economic position of lower skilled workers …-skilled workers, caused mainly by computerization and related forms of advanced technology, explain both the declining wages of low …

while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …

This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and …. Our results indicate that school quality is an important predictor of and positively associated to future wages for Whites …, but it is less so for the two minority groups. We confirm significant gender disparities in wages favoring men across …

While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging … employment and wages and is also able to control for many other sources of heterogeneity, including attractiveness, cognitive …