Prisoners employed in manufacturing constitute 4.2% of total U.S. manufacturing employment in 2005; they produce cheap … reduced wages (particularly for women) in counties that housed competing manufacturing industries. The introduction of convict … labor accounts for 0.5 percentage-point slower annual growth in manufacturing wages during 1880–1900. At the same time …

The last decades have witnessed a revolution in manufacturing production characterized by increasing technology …

How do college students and postsecondary institutions react to changes in skill demand in the U.S. labor market? We …

for all firm personnel in remediating internal control failures. We also find that increased financial skill demand is … additional evidence consistent with increased financial skill demand relating to the disclosure of a material weaknesses rather …

and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between … that were specialized in routine activities differentially adopted information technology, reallocated low skill labor into …), and received inflows of skilled labor. -- skill demand ; job tasks ; inequality ; polarization ; technological change …