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Broecke, Stijn - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Policymakers in many OECD countries are increasingly concerned about high and rising inequality. Much of the evidence (as far back as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive)...

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Is the labor market vulnerability of less-educated men really about job competition? New insights from the United States

Gesthuizen, Maurice; Solga, Heike - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 3, pp. 205-221

There are various reasons why less-educated men have higher risks of labor market vulnerability - risks such as being unemployed or, if employed, having only low socioeconomic status. The commonly used argument is that these higher risks result from increased job competition caused by an...

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Skills for the 21st century: Findings and policy lessons from the OECD survey of adult skills

Martin, John P. - 2018

The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This paper argues that the findings and policy lessons from the project to date justify the high hopes which were placed in PIAAC when detailed planning for...

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Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.

Castro, Rui; Coen-Pirani, Daniele - 2015

We study the evolution of educational attainment of the 1932-1972 cohorts using a human capital investment model with heterogeneous learning ability. Inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education quality over time, and average learning ability...

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Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?

Battisti, Michele; Fedorets, Alexandra; Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel findings on cognitive skill distributions by gender across 34 countries....

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Cognitive Skills among Adults: An Impeding Factor for Gender Convergence?

Battisti, Michele; Fedorets, Alexandra; Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

While gender diﬀerences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel ﬁndings on cognitive skill distributions by gender across 34 countries....

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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...

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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden

Forsberg, Erika; Khan, Akib; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024

Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...

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Firm Knowledge, Neighborhood Diversity and Innovation

Wixe, Sofia - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge … points to the importance of absorptive capacity. However, firm characteristics, such as the knowledge of the own employees …

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Impact of human resources' knowledge and skills on SMEs' in Medan City, Indonesia

Sembiring, Rasmulia - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 5 (2016) 3, pp. 95-104

The purpose of this research article was to explore the influence of knowledge and skills of human resource on the … the significant effect of human knowledge and skills partially or not, whereas F test was applied to test whether the … effect will be simultaneous. Results showed that knowledge and skills of human resources have significant and simultaneous …

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