“…The seven empirical studies included in this special issue interrogate skill inequalities in relation to three domains: acquisition of skills through education (Heisig, Elbers, and Solga 2019), returns to education and training (Danner, Lechner, and Rammstedt 2019;Kwon, Park, and Byun 2019) and labour market mismatch (Capsada-Munsech 2019; Choi, Guio, and Escardibul 2019; Fregin, Levels, and van der Velden forthcoming; Sevilla and Farías 2019). The special issue consists of four cross-national comparative studies (Choi, Guio, and Escardibul 2019;Danner, Lechner, and Rammstedt 2019;Fregin, Levels, and van der Velden forthcoming;Heisig, Elbers, and Solga 2019) and three studies delving deeply into a single country analysis focusing on Spain (Capsada-Munsech 2019), South Korea (Kwon, Park, and Byun 2019), and Chile (Sevilla and Farías 2019). The selected papers show the potential of PIAAC not only for studying international patterns but also for analysing how national political economy contexts shape inequalities in adult skills.…”