High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the genderwage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown thatin three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insuranceindustry) the unexplained and...