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How general is human capital? A task-based approach

Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - 2007

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...

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Earnings function in Lebanon : does religion matter?

Harb, Nasri - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 7, pp. 821-840

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … languages enhances the effects on earnings of schooling and pre-immigration labor market experience. Language proficiency and …

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Human capital matters : intergenerational occupational mobility in rural China

Zhuo, Ni; Ye, Chunhui; Ji, Chen - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

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Educational mismatch and promotions to managerial positions : a test of the career mobility theory

Grunau, Philipp; Pecoraro, Marco - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 12, pp. 1226-1240

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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