compression hypothesis hold? Based on the PIAAC survey of adult skills for seventeen OECD countries, this paper seeks to shed …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

We investigate the relationship between child socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using longitudinal data … from the 1970 British Cohort Study. We perform a novel factor analysis of child skills and capture four latent dimensions … measured in the adolescent period - but none of these is able to fully explain the association between child skills and later …

Life skills, sometimes referred to as noncognitive skills or personality traits (e.g. conscientiousness or locus of … thus exploring whether such skills should be taught at the high school or college level. A small portfolio of recent … studies shows encouraging evidence that education could strengthen life skills in adolescence. However, as no uniform approach …

This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage …, and skill differences explain part of the differences in wage dispersion. However, even when accounted for skills, some … of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey of adult skills for core OECD countries, this paper cannot confirm the skill …

-quality schools develop their skills substantially faster than those in low-quality schools. The results remain robust to the …