estimate how skills relate to the odds of obtaining a permanent contract, versus alternative contractual arrangements for … employees. Our pooled analysis shows that skills substantially relate to having a permanent contract across the full sample …. Numeracy skills contribute more than literacy skills; a difference that is largely driven by sorting to occupations and …

difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … increased from 0.19 to 0.30 beginning the college market deregulation. These estimation consider a twofold effect of … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …

Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

demand for skills, one should also reckon the inability of the educational system to provide work-related skills. Moreover …

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than … existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state …-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of …