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 …

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 …

We propose a simple theory of under- and over-employment. Individuals of high type can perform both skilled and … their wage relative to well-matched workers …

outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage return. Non …-cognitive skills, on the other hand, do not affect hiring channels, but they do enjoy a positive wage return. This wage return differs … skill that could arguably be observed during selection interviews, are associated with a larger within-firm wage gap between …