affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour-augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap … with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis …

Labour Dynamics in Australia survey to investigate how personal resources in the form of skills, cognitive abilities, and … account for correlations of the couple’s unobserved characteristics. The SUR estimates indicate that computer skills reduce … work-life strains for mothers, that math skills reduce strains for fathers, and that the personality traits of extraversion …

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 …-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …

immigrants to Canada were employed in source country occupations that typically require high levels of cognitive skills, but rely … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the … and manual skills, these discrepancies are larger among immigrants with limited language fluency. …

on individual skills and competences, which is consistent with the low-road employment hypothesis. Related managerial and …