which implies that health is an investment good complimentary for human capital. The latter is treated as actual skills and …

This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self …-skilled. The availability of skill use data further permit the computation of the degree of under and over-usage of skills in the … economy. The empirical analysis is carried out using the first wave of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), allowing …

This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self …-skilled. The availability of skill use data further permit the computation of the degree of under and overusage of skills in the … economy. The empirical analysis is carried out using the first wave of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and the …

Changes in the characteristics and skills of British youths between the mid-1980s and mid-2000s are evaluated using a … method recently developed by Altonji et al. The main finding is that skills have increased over time in successive cohorts of … young people. The improvement is, however, uneven, and those at the bottom end of the skills distribution have benefitted …

understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …