Sentence examples for skill distribution from inspiring English sources

"Given the long tail of the skill distribution, it will be very expensive.

This is particularly marked in the bottom half of the skill distribution.

Those tasks happen to lie on opposite ends of the occupational skill distribution.

"Seattle is a high-price, high-wage town and highly educated, so the number of people working at the bottom of the skill distribution is smaller.

The result is "polarization" of employment with job growth concentrated at the high and low ends of the wage and skill distribution and the disappearance of jobs in the middle.

The fall in manufacturing employment during the 2000s was a major factor behind growing wage inequality and the polarization of job opportunities between the top and bottom of the wage and skill distribution, with a hollowing out of middle-income jobs.

In contrast, contemporary foreign immigrant and US native skill distributions are much more similar (Card 2009), as were the within-racial-group distributions of Southern immigrant and Northern native skill during the Great Migration.

We then confirm the robustness of our results along other dimensions, including alternative measures of cognitive skills and experience, as well as considering additional moments from cognitive skill distributions.

For example, Card (2009) argues that, since the immigrant and native skill distributions are similar for appropriately defined measures of skill, immigration has had little effect on the relative wage structure.

For our main results, we use the 5th and 95th percentiles of the skill distributions, and in Table 8, we report results obtained under alternative choices, namely the actual minimum and maximum, the 1st and 99th percentiles and the 2nd and 98th percentiles.

Because immigrants comprised a small fraction of the white labor force, the proportional changes in white immigration were relatively small, and the white immigrant and native skill distributions were broadly similar, the effects of Southern immigration were small across all white labor aggregates.