Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills …? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests … consensus is emerging that an array of non-academic skills and occupational skills may be at least as important for labor market …

We study workplace segregation in the United States using a unique matched employer-employee data set that we have … created. We present measures of workplace segregation by education and language%u2013as skilled workers may be more … of education- and language-related skill differentials in generating workplace segregation by race and ethnicity, as …

Our results indicate that there is considerable segregation by education and language in the workplace. Racial … segregation in the workplace is of the same order of magnitude as education segregation, and segregation between Hispanics and … whites is larger yet. Only a tiny portion of racial segregation in the workplace is driven by education differences between …