data, we find that highly productive firms display low labor shares, dominate concentrated markets, and pay lower wages … worker transitions away from high-productivity firms that pay relatively low wages. We discuss implications of our findings …

, for a broader form of sector- specificity that is not related to tenure, such as job search skills and vocational training …This paper examines how one form of transferable skills, those valued within an industry or sector, may influence … component to the returns to job tenure. The importance of these skills varies across sectors, with the strongest evidence found …

administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and … reforms contributed to the slowdown in labor productivity in Italy by delaying human capital accumulation (in the form of …

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

international transferability of human capital skills results in immigrants entering into relatively low status occupations when …

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 …

skills and is associated with a return of up to 2-3% with each year of experience. Third, gains from task-based learning are … job-specific skills on wage growth and job mobility. …