-level job task information that allows us to compare the skills acquired in the years just after graduation to the tasks … required in later employment. Our findings reveal a postdoc salary penalty when task mismatch is high, which is frequent, and a … salary premium when skills align with tasks. Differences in accumulated task-specific human capital explain the between …

to non-uniform labor demand shocks. When workers have different skills, movements in aggregate wages partly reflect a … of task-specific demand shocks that induce aggregate employment and wages to negatively comove even in a frictionless …This paper studies aggregate labor market dynamics when workers have heterogeneous skills for tasks which are subject …

flattening returns to cognitive skills and growing returns to non-cognitive, "higher-order" skills such as teamwork. To …

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …

. The results suggest that the development of non-cognitive skills is central to the returns to education for crime and …