Although recessions negatively affect labor market outcomes, we find that individuals with greater cognitive skills … decrease in the returns to cognitive skills over the last few decades, on average. We argue that changes in the provision of … employer-paid training can help explain the relative return to cognitive skills during recent recessions due to lower training …

We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left …-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higherorder risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household …

We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left …-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household …

average earnings differentials and considers variations in such differentials across the earnings and skills distributions. We … ends of the skills and earnings distributions. This suggests that the transferability of human capital is a crucial …

disentangle how the patterns vary according to individual skills, defined in terms of both educational levels and percentiles of …

skills. -- Field of Study ; Competencies ; Returns to Education ; Quantile Regression ; Ireland …

The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data …

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … expected levels of English skills in each of over 500 occupations in the US Census. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for … that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the …