Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic …

difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …

Regional economic policy faces the challenge of two competing policy goals - reducing regional economic disparities vs … financial resources. If, however, some region turns out to be a regional growth pole with positive spillovers to its … disadvantaged periphery, regional policies could be designed to reconcile the conflicting targets. In this case, peripheral regions …

wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive … skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … of females. Cognitive skills as measured by reading and numeracy also confer different benefits across the wage …