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

greater English language skills, whether measured by the level of these skills or the importance of English for performing the … is reduced by 50 percent, but is still large, when worker characteristics, including their own English language skills … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills …

principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …

demand for advanced cognitive skills ("skill downgrading"). Analyses of wage and employment data from the U.S. Current …

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 …

United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of … occupations in which communication skills -- active listening, negotiation, persuasion, reading comprehension, speaking, and …

-level job task information that allows us to compare the skills acquired in the years just after graduation to the tasks … salary premium when skills align with tasks. Differences in accumulated task-specific human capital explain the between …