Economists once believed firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often …

This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and … jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic … rich skills reserves. …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using … their careers, while job mobility is important for workers who acquire skills in an apprenticeship scheme before labour …

skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others …. These results imply that the scope to improve teachers' skills varies between countries and that policy makers should take … the shape of the skills distribution into account when designing interventions in order to most efficiently raise teachers …