(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 …

-education, occupational downgrading, and (self-reported) use of skills for male immigrants, who account for about 75% of the sample, while … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …

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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the demand for language skills using data on online job vacancies in 27 European Union member …