abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self …

difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …

Regional economic policy faces the challenge of two competing policy goals - reducing regional economic disparities vs … financial resources. If, however, some region turns out to be a regional growth pole with positive spillovers to its … disadvantaged periphery, regional policies could be designed to reconcile the conflicting targets. In this case, peripheral regions …

skills available in the regional workforce, which allows for a broader measure of human capital than is captured by … - are characterized by high levels of social and resource-management skills, as well as the ability to generate ideas and …, and laborers - are among the lowest in terms of required skills. These differences in the skill content of work shed light …

skills available in the regional workforce, which allows for a broader measure of human capital than is captured by … - are characterized by high levels of social and resource-management skills, as well as the ability to generate ideas and …, and laborers - are among the lowest in terms of required skills. These differences in the skill content of work shed light …

wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive … skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … of females. Cognitive skills as measured by reading and numeracy also confer different benefits across the wage …

' skills and most labor outcomes but some evidence of a effect on labor income. We also find evidence of heterogeneous effects …