The 1980s and 1990s have seen a rising share of skilled labor in total employment in the manufacturing sector of Canada … composition of employment in manufacturing. The paper describes the composition of employment in manufacturing. It focuses on the …

explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by … comparing changes in wages and employment rates over the 1980s for different age and education groups in the United States …