We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory … compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to …

workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their involvement in various forms of post-school skills formation. The countries … skills at all have the largest contribution but small businesses tend to employ low educated workers at a large scale even in … highly complex jobs. In Hungary, insufficient skills (relative to Norway) and an undersized small-firm sector (relative to …

language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job …

skills, while others - mostly blue collar, but not only - being more intensive in Routine and Manual skills. We also find …, these results suggest that as countries develop, they tend to adopt and use certain skills more widely, especially across … occupations. This may suggest some degree of specialization in skills content of tasks as countries develop, especially moving …

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult …‐qualified employees. Little evidence is found in favour of equilibrium theories of skills matching and compensating wage differentials …

Economists once believed firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often …

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

) industries and occupations. A measure of basic ICT skills is employed to document differences in skill levels and labour market … points system, are found to have lower average ICT scores than Canadians at birth, although the rate of return to ICT skills …