How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

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 …

retraining for new employment in the expanding sector. The paper derives an optimal welfare policy which combines the design of …

productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from temporary administrative workers and non-remunerated workers and expands … employment of permanent production workers; (iii) leads to the formalization of labor relationships, to the implementation of new … policies, where ICT expansion is accompanied by the development of digital skills …

regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that educational achievement strongly predicts economic growth across U …

female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female …