policy grants preferred access to positions, but offers no direct assistance for acquiring skills; and, (ii) when identity is …

picking skills and little evidence of timing skills among successful managers. This paper estimates skill separately in booms …

skills in the labor force can play a role in the determination of trade flows. We develop a multi-country, multi-sector model …' skills, (ii) the dispersion of skills in the working population. First, we show how higher dispersion in human capital can … trigger specialization in sectors characterized by higher substitutability among workers' skills. We then use industry …