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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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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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Local human capital, segregation by skill, and skill-specific employment growth

Schlitte, Friso - 2010

gekennzeichnet. Dabei ist das lokale Humankapital ein wahrscheinlicher Einflussfaktor für das qualifikationsspezifische Lohnniveau …

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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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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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Firm productivity, wages, and sorting

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2020

Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...

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Panel evidence on within-occupation change in job tasks and individual wages

Müller, Gerrit - 2024

Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by the...

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