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%T A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows %A Stijepic, Damir %J Journal for Labour Market Research %P 1-30 %V 55 %D 2021 %K Gross worker flows; Skills; Survey of Adult Skills, PIAAC %@ 1867-8343 %~ FDB %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-77878-5 %X 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 advanced and skill-abundant countries in the sample. The relation is remarkably robust and it is unlikely to be due to reverse causality. I do not find evidence that this positive relation extends to the seven relatively less advanced and less skill-abundant countries in the sample: Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Chile, Turkey and Kazakhstan. %C DEU %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info