Regional economic policy faces the challenge of two competing policy goals - reducing regional economic disparities vs … financial resources. If, however, some region turns out to be a regional growth pole with positive spillovers to its … disadvantaged periphery, regional policies could be designed to reconcile the conflicting targets. In this case, peripheral regions …

school to the labor market. Limited skills relative to the demands of employers also play a role. This paper proposes three … certification and verification of skills. 3) Build a robust apprenticeship system that emphasizes learning by doing in a context … and documenting skills. By upgrading information and using approaches that recognize differences in learning styles, we …

This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a … effects of non-cognitive skills for high-wage employees compared to their low-wage counterparts. I test these hypotheses with …

/networking at young age, which can enhance personal interaction skills. We provide new empirical evidence for three European …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory … 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 …