Digital skills are positively related to employment prospects and productivity of older workers. They also enable older workers to work in high-paying jobs. Fortunately, digital skills can be acquired and honed at all ages. Policymakers should incentivize employers to offer more training for the...

Apprenticeship plans provide the basis for reliably and comprehensively classifying the skills of a large share of Germany's workforce. In total, we classify more than 13,000 different skills and the duration of learning each skill based on the apprenticeship plans. Workers who have acquired...

Mentoring programs can strongly improve the transition from school to work for disadvantaged adolescents. Results from our field experiment indicate that a German mentoring program markedly boosts school achievement, patience, and labor-market orientation of students from highly disadvantaged...