occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find … that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non …-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …

occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find … that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non …-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …

first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across … countries and across German municipalities. ICT skills are substantially rewarded in the labor market: returns are at 8 percent …

cognitive skills as one main dimension of teacher quality in explaining student outcomes. Our main identification strategy … exploits exogenous variation in teacher cognitive skills attributable to international differences in relative wages of … nonteacher public sector employees. Using student-level test score data, we find that teacher cognitive skills are an important …

occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find … that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non …-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …