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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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Job search, human capital and wage inequality

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012

The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...

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Overreduction and earnings within an occupation : controlling for occupational heterogeneity of nurses

Rubb, Stephen - In: Education economics 22 (2014) 3, pp. 257-369

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Human capital and income inequality revisited

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Doménech, Rafael - In: Education economics 29 (2021) 2, pp. 194-212

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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

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When tenure ends : the short-run effects of the elimination of Louisiana's teacher employment protections on teacher exit and retirement

Barrett, Nathan; Strunk, Katharine O.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - In: Education economics 29 (2021) 6, pp. 559-579

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Effects of professorial tenure on undergraduate ratings of teaching performance

Cheng, Dorothy A. - In: Education economics 23 (2015) 3, pp. 338-357

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Literacy and numeracy of overeducated and undereducated workers : revisiting the allocation process in the labour market

Grunau, Philipp - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 4, pp. 403-417

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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis

Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jo - In: Education economics 27 (2019) 1, pp. 35-51

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