This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a …-in-difference strategy. Using longitudinal information obtained from the firm and two skills surveys, we document large positive effects of … communication skills. Spillovers from trained managers to untrained sales representatives also contribute to the main effects. Our …

Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training … programs. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among store managers and … gathered by the firm and through two skills surveys. The Identification exploits the experimental design in the context of a …

employees' digital skills and the acquisition of a mix of hard and soft skills. In this study, our objective was to identify, in …, we argue that any skills development strategy for AI should target upskilling and reskilling programmes aimed at … developing above-average hard and soft skills. While increasing the number of graduates specialising in educational fields …

played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

Market-oriented reforms, such as liberalizing trade and encouraging foreign direct investment, can generate large … exposure to international trade, and access to technology across the country. We assess the extent to which exposure to foreign … markets and access to digital technologies affect the demand for different types of skills, by exploiting the fact that …

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under thefollowing (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally,we identify and summarize the existing research gaps …

This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness iscausally associated to a … within-country trade. Our main findingis robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures …. Thepreferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reducesunemployment by about one percentage …