this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal …

assimilation into normal employment and the extent to which job matches are inefficient in the sense that the pay in a job is below …

throughout the wage distribution. For the different demographic groups analyzed, the statistically significant estimated average … impacts in the lower part of their wage distribution, while Whites likely experience larger impacts in the upper part of their …

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E … aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …

This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is … four different measures of success as self-employed: income from self-employment, number of employees, turnover of the firm …

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …-level productivity exceeds their contribution to the wage bill. On the methodological side, we note that failure to account for the …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …

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 …

employment and earnings, such as raises on the job or longer job duration. The city of New Orleans implemented a job training …, as workers may not find their stable, target employment immediately. Government may also want to find ways to improve …