-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

sharp characterization for the optimal mobility of individual workers and for the aggregate supply of skills across …

skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language, field-specific, and non-cognitive skills. Graduates of longer programs, of …. Returns to skills vary along the wage distribution, with tenure, with the field of specialization and the type of job obtained …

This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a …

the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a …

Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team … social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage progression with tenure and also accrue higher returns in firms with a higher … concentration of more educated colleagues. Additionally, workers exit sooner from jobs where social skills are more important. We …