creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that … relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and noncognitive skills. It shows that this microfoundation is similar to that of … project workers’ cognitive and noncognitive skills from the micro to the regional level. …

-skilled workers is decreasing. This is possibly linked with the increasing number of tertiary education graduates and at the same time … mobility of human (STEM) capital. Without a proper supply of skills, firms will not be able to reap the full benefits of the …

from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey …Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data … use at work, birth-cohort, education, occupation and rural/urban location. The results are also robust to the endogenous …

from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns to foreign language skills in Turkey …Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data … use at work, birth-cohort, education, occupation and rural/urban location. The results are also robust to the endogenous …

Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic … restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems …

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills …. This study is among the first to examine how both cognitive and noncognitive skills measured in childhood predict …

implications of these results for education and labour market policies are also discussed …