Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …

mobility of human (STEM) capital. Without a proper supply of skills, firms will not be able to reap the full benefits of the …

estimate how skills relate to the odds of obtaining a permanent contract, versus alternative contractual arrangements for … employees. Our pooled analysis shows that skills substantially relate to having a permanent contract across the full sample …. Numeracy skills contribute more than literacy skills; a difference that is largely driven by sorting to occupations and …

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 … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

skills, while others - mostly blue collar, but not only - being more intensive in Routine and Manual skills. We also find …, these results suggest that as countries develop, they tend to adopt and use certain skills more widely, especially across … occupations. This may suggest some degree of specialization in skills content of tasks as countries develop, especially moving …