question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically … induced variation in broadband Internet availability that gives rise to variation in ICT skills across countries and German … municipalities. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills raises earnings by about 25 percent. Exogenous broadband …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … skills, while firms require and value different combinations of these skills. Assuming that match productivity exhibits … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and …