What explains the current low rate of employment in the US? While there has been substantial debate over this question in recent years, we believe that considerable added insight can be derived by focusing on changes in the labor market at the turn of the century. In particular, we argue that in about the year 2000, the demand for skill (or, more specifically, for cognitive tasks often associat...

The factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries are still not well understood. The authors use data from Peru to analyze the determinants of withinindustry share of skilled workers. They use a translog cost function for gross output and are therefore able to incorporate the effects of materials, both domestic and imported, in addition to capital....

This paper analyses the effects of trade liberalisation and technical change on real and relative wages. It builds a model with monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and two countries, North and South, and solves it numerically. Skill-biased technical change, caused by decreases in the price of imported equipment as a result of reduced trade costs or falls in its world price, tends to i...

We study the e¤ects of additional distortions or shocks, such as a fair-wage constraint and/or the possibility of o¤shoring unskilled jobs, in a two-factor general equilibrium model of unemployment with search frictions. While the direct point of impact of such shocks is on unskilled workers, we also …nd interesting indirect spillover e¤ects on skilled workers. A binding fair-wage constraint in...

This paper investigates the impact of an increase in life expectancy on level and distribution income presence skill heterogeneity automation. It shows analytically that induces replacement low-skilled workers by automation capital high-skilled workers. Moreover, it raises premium has ambiguous effect total income. A simulation exercise, based US data, as well inequality We consider redistribut...

Abstract One of the key questions facing immigration policy-makers is which jobs should be eligible for work visas. This question has dominated discussions about post-Brexit system, focused in particular on issue shortages. While UK government resisted calls to open labour migration routes low-wage or low-skilled with high demand foreign workers, workers middle- and high-skilled that are deemed...

OBJECTIVE In Nigeria, wide disparities exist between the different parts of the country, with the states in the North East zone having poor health resources. The objective of this study is to assess whether women's biological, sociocultural, and economic characteristics are associated with utilization of ante natal care services as measured by number of antenatal care (ANC) visits in Yobe State...

We study the impact of trade exposure on job biographies 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany. Rising export opportunities lead to two equally important sources earnings gains: and employer switches within same industry. Highly skilled benefit most. Import shocks mostly hurt low-skilled workers, especially when they possess lots industry-specific human capital. They also destroy workers...

Although earnings generally increased in rural areas in the 1990s, Hispanic population growth led to lower wages for at least one segment of the rural population—workers with a high school degree (skilled workers), particularly men in this skill group. Using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Current Population Survey, this report examines the effects of Hispanic population growt...