Abstract We assess South African workseekers' skills and disseminate the assessment
results to explore how limited information affects firm and workseeker behavior. Giving …

Executive summary For decades, the portion of prime-age men (ages 25 to 54) in the labor
force has been in decline. More recently, the labor force participation rate of prime-age …

We construct a structural model of on-the-job search in which workers differ in skills along
several dimensions and sort themselves into jobs with heterogeneous skill requirements …

This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of
human capital theory. I begin with a review of the canonical model of education and the …

The choice of college major is a key stage in the career search, and over a third of college
students switch majors at least once. We provide the first comprehensive analysis of major …

We examine the impact of mismatch on entry wages, separations, and wage growth using
unique data on worker talents. We show that workers are sorted on comparative advantage …

Distance and direction measures are constructed and used to contrast occupational mobility
following involuntary job displacement and total occupational mobility. Displacement …

Has the emergence of information technology changed the structure of employment and
earnings in the US? We propose a new index of occupation-level IT intensity and document …

Studies on the relationship between “green policies” and the labour market have been often
relegated to the grey literature due to the lack of clear definitions of green jobs and skills …

Since digitalisation alters occupational task profiles via automation processes, job quality is
also likely to be affected. While existing literature mainly focusses on objective job quality …