(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 …

Using a data-driven methodology that allows to quantify the importance of different skills in performing green tasks … occupations characterised by skills that are important for the exercise of green tasks to total employment. For the countries … regard to a possible shortage of skilled workers by means of indicators that reflect different dimensions of skills shortages …

digital skills. The aim of this article is to emphasize the ways in which people's digital abilities and appetite for online … activities are connected to job productivity (salary levels) and to determine which individual internet-based digital skills are …, namely comprehensive online skills and digital social and media skills, keeping more than 80% of the overall variability. We …

a comprehensive analysis of the current position of the literature on skills mismatch and highlight areas which are … relatively underdeveloped and may warrant further research. Using data from the European Skills and Jobs Survey, we assess the … incidence of various combinations of skills mismatch across the EU. Finally, we review the European Commission's country …

The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article …

market opportunity structures and their employment attitudes (i.e. skills and retraining). Building on the varieties of … to regard firm- and industry-specific skills as more important than their peers in liberal market economies (LMEs). To … to the specificity of skills and the willingness to undertake retraining differ systematically between CME and LME …

. 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 …