(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 …

Improving education and skills is the linchpin to reduce income inequality and boost productivity growth. This paper … argues that to improve, and make better use of, the skills of the labour force, Chile could gain a lot from a comprehensive … and consistent Skills Strategy along three pillars: developing, activating and using skills effectively. Chile has made …

of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians …

sharp characterization for the optimal mobility of individual workers and for the aggregate supply of skills across …

This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation … of skills substantially impact income in poor countries. Second, we produce unified projections of population and income …

capital externalities incentivize individuals to invest in skills, consequently reshaping the composition of the labor force …