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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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Overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago's labour market : a quantile regression approach

Doon, Roshnie - 2021

This study examines the impact that over-education has on the earnings of private and public sector workers in Trinidad …

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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US

Zhan, Crystal - 2020

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...

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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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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities

Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024

This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income inequality across generations, and particularly how this can...

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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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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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Are school-provided skills useful at work? : results of the Wiles test

Liwiński, Jacek; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

earnings of graduates on this index using OLS and Heckit to control for omitted heterogeneity of the employed. The data we use …

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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills

Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021

Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....

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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Mumford, Karen - 2004

recognised vocational qualification and current union membership. Whilst being non-white, shorter current job tenure, and part …

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