of some industrial skills coexisting with reports of skill shortages by many enterprises. This paper uses data from the … demand for skills over time, and the potential reasons for reported staffing problems and skill shortages, including labor …

growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused on the pursuit of formal credentials rather than productive skills …

education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart from their ability to transform training into skills …

reduce the rate of unemployment or to reduce the negative effects of unemployment and to promote skills, capability and …

individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production …, but specialization requires communication and coordination between team members, and individuals with more social skills … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

severely over-skilled. The incidence of skills mismatch varied little when the sample was split by education. After controlling …