results are confirmed by the empirical findings obtained for two-digit US manufacturing industries, which also highlight the …

manufacturing industries; but raised the demand for high-skill workers, older workers and men|especially in service industries … that software and robots reduced the demand for low and medium-skill workers, the young, and women|especially in …

long-run job polarization in both Sweden and the US. In particular, the shrinking manufacturing sector, with the subsequent …

This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in … immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and … parametric production function calibrated to our estimates imply the level of capital-skill complementarity after 1890 likely …

-intensive and presents high employment generation potential, both in absolute terms and compared to other sectors of manufacturing …

demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower skill groups throughout the developed world. In this paper, we show … that the skill mix of newly arriving immigrants strongly responded to this shift in the demand for skills. Exploiting the … suggest that immigrants responded to skill-biased changes in economic opportunities. Complementing these findings, we document …

through the emergence of markets where each specific skill can be traded s eparately. Our empirical results show that labor is … sorted across establishments on both comparative advantage and absolute ability. Furthermore, wage returns to each skill is … higher in market segments where employers rely more heavily on workers who specialize in that particular skill. Changes over …

Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are used to analyse the determinants of the Firm-specific skill …