. Wage inequality is associated with skills, human capital, technology and metro size - in line with the literature on skill …

for industry profitability. Though, high wages appear also to be associated with high labour skills and then with superior … skilled labour. Given an underlying skills distribution, the model determines profits, wages and aggregate income and welfare …. Results show that high net wages due to a low skills endowment in the economy are typically associated with low profits …

educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …

Economists once believed firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often …