responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how …

; intensity and characteristics of companies’ skills need and degree of skill mismatch, on the other. The analysis focuses on a … the skill need distinguished by competence/knowledge domains (management, STEM, social and soft skills, technical … operatives and humanities) it emerges that companies looking for technical operative and social skills show lower labour …

skills, these task demand shifts potentially foster horizontal skill mismatches, e.g. individuals not working in their …

-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This … experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and …-, required, and under-education) equations aggregated at the firm level. Our results show that the over-education wage premium is … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over-education …

abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self …