Workers’ skills are crucial for personal success and economic growth, but ongoing changes such as digitalization and demographic shifts constantly change skill needs. The project explores which cognitive and noncognitive skills are necessary for the labor market and how this evolves over time. By analyzing large-scale datasets across countries and over time, we examine how skills relate to income, to what extent workers’ skills match employers’ needs, how skills relate to age, and how training programs are associated with skills. The project combines expertise from psychology, sociology, and economics to better understand the demands of the labor market.