"An extraordinary confluence of forces stemming from automation and digital technologies is transforming both the world of work and the ways we educate current and future employees to contribute productively to the workplace. The Great Skills Gap opens with the premise that the exploding scope...

Wie signalisieren hochbegabte Bewerber potenziellen Arbeitgebern ihr überdurchschnittliches Talent? Ein prominentes Kriterium ist die Ausbildung, denn Hochschulen lassen sich als Filtereinrichtungen interpretieren, die eine Einteilung von Studierenden in unterschiedliche Qualitätsstufen...

This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...