change over the lifecycle and report that the total amount of mismatch averaged over all workers of the younger cohort …; and lead to occupational polarization, thereby amplifying the skill mismatch of mid-aged workers. …

change over the lifecycle and report that the total amount of mismatch averaged over all workers of the younger cohort …; and lead to occupational polarization, thereby amplifying the skill mismatch of mid-aged workers. …

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …

experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …

experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …

sorting may be inefficient if jobseekers have inaccurate beliefs about their skills and therefore apply to jobs that do not … match their skills. To test this idea, we measure young South African jobseekers' communication and numeracy skills and …

skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and job skill requirements of over 120,000 individuals across 28 … countries, we document that workers' skills better match their jobs' skill requirements in higher-income countries. To quantify …