skills have greater explanatory power than personality traits in determining mean wages. Unconditional quantile regressions …. Cognitive skills cumulatively account for a larger share of the explained component than personality traits do, and matter more … at lower percentiles. However, together these cognitive and socio-emotional skills matter to a lesser degree than factors …

of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians …

, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …

in an emerging economy resemble those explored for industrialized ones. These are: skills-biased technical change …

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and … individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these …

whether decline in routine jobs and change in demand for skills has shaped evolution of earnings inequality in India. We rule …