young Italian male workers. Using instrumental variables, I take into account endogeneity and selection problems generated … biased and that white collars workers enjoy higher returns to general and specific skills than blue collars. …

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

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

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 …

that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …

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 …

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 …

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …