new skills will be needed, and how existing jobs will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes … the adoption of skills-augmenting technologies. Private sector companies should strengthen training programs … for faster productivity growth, but also a potential disruption to a number of economic sectors and to job markets …

. In particular, more effort should be devoted to (i) understanding what new skills will be needed, and how existing jobs … will change; (ii) upgrading education and professional training schemes; (iii) reforming labor market institutions to …, with initiatives to re-align demand and supply of skills, labor market reforms, redesigned social safety nets, measures to …

, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly …