19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the idea that Internet access is important in the formation of ICT … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across …. Placebo estimations show that exogenous Internet availability cannot explain numeracy or literacy skills, suggesting that our …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

changes in occupational match quality and the associated changes in wages. We first investigate how workers' match qualities …

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 …

We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a …