first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in … skills, and we implement instrumental-variable models that leverage exogenous variation in Internet availability across … countries and across German municipalities. ICT skills are substantially rewarded in the labor market: returns are at 8 percent …

Using an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation … between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that … skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65-0.68 across the …

Adult Literacy Survey (IALS, administered between 1994 and 1998), the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL …, administered between 2003 and 2007) and the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC, administered in 2012). While many countries experienced …