This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household …

estimate how skills relate to the odds of obtaining a permanent contract, versus alternative contractual arrangements for … employees. Our pooled analysis shows that skills substantially relate to having a permanent contract across the full sample …. Numeracy skills contribute more than literacy skills; a difference that is largely driven by sorting to occupations and …

-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean …-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …

relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and noncognitive skills. It shows that this microfoundation is similar to that of … project workers’ cognitive and noncognitive skills from the micro to the regional level. …

-market relevant cognitive skills. For identification, I exploit the staggered introduction of a compulsory ninth grade in basic track … increased numeracy skills of basic-track students by about 0.2 standard deviations. Using superior skill data, the results … contrast with previous evidence of zero skill effects of compulsory schooling in Germany. …

This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally …

early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures of cognitive and socio-emotional skills and … a latent factor structure to estimate flexible skills production functions between the ages of 8 and 22. We focus …-emotional skills can be separated into two distinct domains - social skills and task effectiveness skills- which develop differently …

sharp characterization for the optimal mobility of individual workers and for the aggregate supply of skills across …