This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services …

skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and optimism) significantly affect simple adoption decisions, returns from adoption … capital measures. Greater focus on personality traits relative to cognitive skills may help accelerate innovation diffusion in …

accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the … capital due to inadequate access and quality of opportunities for skills development through formal education and employment … market do not contribute to build skills that are valued by the labor market, and (ii) the costs related to economic …

how many jobs can be done at home. This paper uses skills surveys from 53 countries at varying levels of economic …

A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in … data set that enables investigating different stages of candidate screening. The study finds that socioemotional skills … appear to be valued only when an employer specifically asks for such skills in the vacancy ad. When not asked for, however …

Many employers and employees believe that non-cognitive skills are an important contributor to labor market success …-cognitive skills are correlated with a worker's likelihood of achieving success in the labor market. Although many of the findings are … workers with distinct types of non-cognitive skills, whereas differences within firms may indicate that variations in non …