After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause − rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …

with the less-than-perfect international transferability of human capital skills. It shows that around 50 percent of the …

We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker … talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns … entry wages but a larger impact on separations and future wage growth if matches are formed under limited information …

host country. Motivated by the critical age hypothesis, we identify the causal effects of English skills on socioeconomic … English skills.We also find that acquiring better English-language skills improves the educational attainment and labor and …

international transferability of skills. A longer duration in the U.S., however, is associated with a lower probability of being … international transferability of their pre-immigration skills …

greater English language skills, whether measured by the level of these skills or the importance of English for performing the … is reduced by 50 percent, but is still large, when worker characteristics, including their own English language skills … required for the occupation, and when those with high levels of proficiency work in jobs requiring English language skills …

offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes …

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 …

is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In contrast, in our model, workers make … risk and wages. We test the model's predictions using obesity as a proxy for worker disinvestments in human capital and … between individual accident risk and wages, but only in high risk occupations. The latter relationship may downward bias or …

wages. This evidence is robust to many variants of the econometric specification and to addressing potential endogeneity …We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level … show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher …