Regional economic policy faces the challenge of two competing policy goals - reducing regional economic disparities vs … financial resources. If, however, some region turns out to be a regional growth pole with positive spillovers to its … disadvantaged periphery, regional policies could be designed to reconcile the conflicting targets. In this case, peripheral regions …

skills available in the regional workforce, which allows for a broader measure of human capital than is captured by … - are characterized by high levels of social and resource-management skills, as well as the ability to generate ideas and …, and laborers - are among the lowest in terms of required skills. These differences in the skill content of work shed light …

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 …

' 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 …

(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 …