We investigate foreign language skill demand and its determinants with a novel dataset, the Web Intelligence Hub's Online Job Advertisement (OJA) database, with information on about 53 million ads posted in 2021 for jobs in Europe. This unique dataset has been built crawling hundreds of job...

This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial aimed at testing the effectiveness of an innovative intervention of asset building (Percorsi) on high school students' transition to the university. Contrary to most traditional forms of financial aid, the tested intervention is...

Besides assuring the transmission of traditional competences - often proxied with standardised test scores and grades - schools are expected to contribute to young people's development of non-traditional competences, such as engagement, effort and perseverance. Little is known about these...

Besides assuring the transmission of traditional competences - often proxied with standardised test scores and grades - schools are expected to contribute to young people's development of non-traditional competences, such as engagement, effort and perseverance. Little is known about these...

This paper investigates the demand for language skills using data on online job vacancies in 27 European Union member countries and the United Kingdom in 2021. Evidence indicates that although Europe remains a linguistically diverse labour market, knowing English confers unique advantages in...