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 …

that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …

, the estimates show that origin-based differences in over-education wage penalties significantly depend on both … demographics (workers' region of birth, education, and gender) and employer characteristics (firm size and collective bargaining). …

rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in … international literature on the measured incidence of educational mismatch and its earnings effects. We use a rich Australian …

Exploiting rich nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies this paper explores the … relationship between overeducation, earnings and job satisfaction among graduates in China. We find consistent evidence, across … non-cognitive skills as drivers of these penalties. In contrast, controlling for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity …

skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher … wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in high demand and that there is a relative scarcity. Policymakers … need robust evidence in order to devise interventions that genuinely improve basic skills, not just of new school leavers …

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It … expected levels of English skills in each of over 500 occupations in the US Census. Earnings data from the 2000 US Census for … that earnings are related to correct matching of an individual's language skills and that of his occupation. Moreover, the …

relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and earnings among those with elite post-baccalaureate degrees. Few …, undergraduate institutional prestige continues to be positively related to earnings overall as well as among those with specific … elite institution, the present value of the earnings advantage to having both an undergraduate and a graduate degree from an …

scores and hourly wages, with refugees having the lowest. The wage returns to these basic skills are economically significant … literacy and numeracy skills, and the economic returns to these skills, for Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants. The novelty … compared to those born in Canada, although young immigrants do outperform adult immigrants. Similar results are found for wages …

investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …The recent literature on overeducation has provided divergent results on whether or not overeducation bears an earnings …