Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills …? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests … consensus is emerging that an array of non-academic skills and occupational skills may be at least as important for labor market …

(as far back as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations) points to the importance of skills in tackling wage inequality. Yet a … recent strand of the research argues that (cognitive) skills explain little of the cross-country differences in wage … inequality. Does this challenge the received wisdom on the relationship between skills and wage inequality? No, because this …

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

school to the labor market. Limited skills relative to the demands of employers also play a role. This paper proposes three … certification and verification of skills. 3) Build a robust apprenticeship system that emphasizes learning by doing in a context … and documenting skills. By upgrading information and using approaches that recognize differences in learning styles, we …

surveys of adult skills and educational performance suggest that younger cohorts are doing less well than their predecessors …. Many immigrants struggle both in school and in the labour market partly because of low skills and language difficulties …