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 …

Using an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation … between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.62–0.70 across the …

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 …

Using an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation … between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

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 …