Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … pathological behavior like crime. Abilities differ in their malleability over the life-cycle, with noncognitive skills being more … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …

changed wage opportunities of those who have been induced to make these investments. Statistical estimation of wage functions … between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted …

policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the …. -- Returns to skills ; allocation of labour ; self-selection ; informal sector ; Sub-Saharan West Africa …

This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications … experiments reveal that the geography of skills matters for global inequality. Low access to education and sectoral misallocation … of skills substantially impact income in poor countries. Second, we produce unified projections of population and income …

develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …