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Despite seven years of economic growth a large gap exists in the wages earned by workers at the top of the earnings scale and those at the bottom. The leading explanation for this growth in wage inequality continues to be the skills-mismatch theory. This theory in part posits that gains in...
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Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force have exploded in recent years with a series of reports from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims. These...
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This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam … Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam … panel individuals from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys of 2002 and 2004, and addressing the issue of …
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