Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … equipping workers with the skills needed by the labour market can support employment and incomes. This will require a … picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

capital, I present a human capital model of migration accounting for taxes, transfers and limited portability of skills. The … dispersion increases unambiguously with host-country relevant skills. Migrants to countries with compressed incomes will hence be … more likely to be either out of work or overqualified and low-paid compared to natives with similar observable skills, and …

relationship with affected banks borrow less and reduce employment mostly of high-skilled workers. High-skilled workers are more …

we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and … targeting reducing inflation rates would also help to reduce unemployment rates in Sudan. Keywords Labour market; employment …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

providing knowledge about the nature of (un)employment and current policy measures, a number policy measures are proposed to … reduce the rate of unemployment or to reduce the negative effects of unemployment and to promote skills, capability and …

return to work at lower rates, are less successful at returning to prior earnings levels, and have lower employment rates in … recovery, and subsequent employment is greatest in the first year after the claim for benefits. There is also evidence that … higher near term employment rates than those returning to work only one quarter later. Getting back to work quickly was also …

Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly …