Wolfgang Lutz, Claudia Reiter, Caner Özdemir, Dilek Yildiz, Raquel Guimaraes, Anne Goujon
Skills-adjusted human capital shows rising global gap
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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