This article studies the impact of demographic change on experienced workers' relative wages and employment rates. We investigate empirical predictions from a framework supply demand for experience skill, using variation across U.S. local labor markets (LLMs) over last decades instrumenting skill by LLMs' age structures decade earlier. find that aging substantially reduces full-time rates, also...

This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of field Caribbean studies.

Empirical work must pay careful attention to how it measures the relative skill abundance of countries and the relative skill intensity embodied in trade  ows. This paper compiles a new data set, using income levels, average education, manufacturing wages, and an index of these three variables, to classify countries and trade  ows as relatively high skill or low skill. Then, in order to show ...

In the large literature on polarization in the wage and employment structure, arguments about shifts in relative demands for different task based groups have been built on comparisons of movements in employment and wages. In particular, increases in both wages and employment in cognitive task occupations relative to routine task occupations are the basis for arguments that Information Technolog...

Abstract “Queer” is a relatively recent and somewhat controversial term in African studies. Yet it proving to be productive, not only for understanding subjectivities of sexuality gender, but also situating Africa’s position the larger economy knowledge. Otu van Klinken explore productive tensions between “queer” “Africa,” aim read Africa as queer from Africa. Thus, rather than imagining polar ...