based on the discrepancy between the portfolio of skills required by an occupation and the portfolio of abilities possessed …What determines the earnings of a worker relative to his peers in the same occupation? What makes a worker fail in one … occupation but succeed in another? More broadly, what are the factors that determine the productivity of a worker-occupation …

the same occupation vary greatly across countries measured by common currency exchange rates and measured by purchasing …

We develop a fairly general and tractable model of investment when workers can invest in multiple skills and different … jobs put different weights on those skills. In addition to expected findings such as that younger workers are more likely … than older workers to respond to a demand shock by investing in skills whose value unexpectedly increases, we derive some …

that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers …