This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …

combination of transfers to avert financial hardship, skills training that facilitate reintegration into the labour market, and …

the relative wages of unskilled workers. However, workers are not immutably either low skill or high skill, and skill …

knowledge and skills offered by workers and demanded by employers. Acquaintance with future demand on knowledge and skills … is to analyse future knowledge and skills needs recognized in 18 future-oriented sector analyses, published by European … Commission in 2009, and identify knowledge and skills applicable in individual sectors, occupations and on the whole labour …

. Skills mismatches challenge the feasibility of this reallocation, particularly with many developed countries also facing …, with a particular emphasis on skills and the skill distance between workers' profiles and the skills required for these … may be pivotal both for economic development and for the achievement of climate objectives. Technical skills emerge as key …

account the attainment got in the previous step. We compare 8 EU countries – Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland …

(as far back as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a … recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive) skills explain little of the cross-country differences in wage … inequality. Does this challenge the received wisdom on the relationship between skills and wage inequality? No, because this …

employed, and a Mundlak correction model is adopted to adjust for unobserved heterogeneity effects and potential endogeneity … importance of adjusting for endogeneity …