Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and … creative individuals have a package of practical skills that allows them to thrive in work environments where learning from …

We study the Lemons Problem when workers have private information on both their skills and their intrinsic motivation …

who can signal their high level of specific skills earn seven to ten percent more than identical students lacking such a … signal. The signal allows workers to find jobs in more productive firms and sectors that better use their skills. The …

determinant of income and labor market outcomes in the arts. Arguably, the IT revolution has changed the demand for certain skills …

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than …-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than …-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey …, 2020), we provide evidence on the effects of ICT skills on labor market outcomes and household welfare as measured by per … challenges in identification arising from unobserved individual heterogeneity in the acquisition of ICT skills, we develop an …