experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we construct a job match index based on the usefulness … of the school-provided skills and the relevance of the job performed to the field of study. Then we regress the first …-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …

The OECD Survey of Adult Skills is the jewel in the crown of its Programme for the International Assessment of Adult … its two predecessor international skills surveys. Second, it outlines the main themes which have been investigated to date …

new stylized facts. First, while developed countries tend to have jobs more intensive in nonroutine cognitive skills than …

, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …

emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …

implications. Investment in skills, technology use, and participation in global value chains are key factors for work content and …

, it derives some policy recommendations to solve the coordination failure between investments in skills, particularly … technical skills, and green technology adoption. …