The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid … observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled workers. The direct effect of increased import competition on relative … employment seems to be small, except for the case of consumer electronics. Apparently, adjustment strategies induced by …

credit subsidies and support for childcare. Maternal employment is seen a central plank in the campaign against child poverty …, both because it raises income immediately and because working now is seen as paving the way to better employment prospects … employment. We know little about how likely such women are to remain in work, let alone how likely they are to progress to higher …

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand … in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import … factor demands, our main results show that international outsourcing has had a strong negative impact on the demand for …

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …

asymmetry implies that an adverse, skill-neutral shock to aggregate employment may cause an increase in wage inequality, both …

Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers … experience, single mothers' real wages and employment have remained relatively unchanged. The empirical analysis suggests that an …

on the employment rates of 16- to 29-year-olds who do not have a high school diploma. Using data drawn from the 2004 and … is associated with a 20.2% to 21.8% reduction in the employment of less-skilled, less-educated workers, with the largest … effects on those aged 16 to 24. Their estimates imply a median employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of …