workforce and fully benefiting from technology adoption. We show that digital technology adoption shifted the demand for skills …

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …-resource managers to choose. We find that signals in all three studied domains – cognitive skills, social skills, and maturity – have a …. While GPAs and social skills are significant for both genders, males are particularly rewarded for maturity and females for …

. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a …This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills … novel measure for another type of skills: Performance in behavioral and practical subjects. Using individual register data …

differentiated varieties of a good requires differentiated skills and if the work force is heterogeneous in these skills, then firms …

occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find … that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non …-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …