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Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...
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How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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This paper investigates how much of the difference in wage distributions is related to differences in skill distributions and whether a compressed wage distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Some countries that have more compressed (dispersed) wage...
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substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling … have declined, compressing the earnings distribution and lowering the returns to education. This paper hypothesizes that … for educated workers. The paper decomposes worker earnings into observable and unobservable firm and individual worker …
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This paper explores the role of school quality in immigrants' home countries on their earnings in Germany, using native …
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