I use Feenstra and Hanson's (2003) outsource-driven framework to investigate the effect of imports in intermediate inputs on the demand for skilled and unskilled labor in Australia. Using a panel data on six two-digit manufacturing industries over the period from 1986/87 to 1994/95, the results...

While the U.S. manufacturing sector has contracted sharply since the early 1980s, employment in high-skill manufacturing occupations has risen by an impressive 37 percent. An investigation of the growth in high-skill manufacturing jobs reveals that virtually all of the nation's industries have...

Previous research has consistently demonstrated a positive relation between firm size and skill premium. We decompose this result by type of skilled worker using data from Chilean firms and find that returns in skill premium to size are an order of magnitude larger for owners and managers...