offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …

administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and … reforms contributed to the slowdown in labor productivity in Italy by delaying human capital accumulation (in the form of …

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 …

data, we find that highly productive firms display low labor shares, dominate concentrated markets, and pay lower wages … worker transitions away from high-productivity firms that pay relatively low wages. We discuss implications of our findings …

quality and complexity play a special role. In search for clues to these questions, the authors use large data sets that cover …

with the less-than-perfect international transferability of human capital skills. It shows that around 50 percent of the …

skills and is associated with a return of up to 2-3% with each year of experience. Third, gains from task-based learning are … job-specific skills on wage growth and job mobility. …

international transferability of human capital skills results in immigrants entering into relatively low status occupations when …

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 …