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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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How general is human capital? : A task-based approach
Gathmann, Christina; Schönberg, Uta - In: Journal of labor economics 28 (2010) 1, pp. 1-49
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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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Wages, sorting on skill, and the racial composition of jobs
Hirsch, Barry T.; Macpherson, David A. - In: Journal of labor economics 22 (2004) 1, pp. 189-210
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261574
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268676
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Putting tasks to the test : human capital, job tasks, and wages
Autor, David H.; Handel, Michael J. - In: Journal of labor economics 31 (2013) 2, pp. 59-96
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Skill-biased technological change and rising wage inequality : some problems and puzzles
Card, David E.; DiNardo, John E. - In: Journal of labor economics 20 (2002) 4, pp. 733-783
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261946
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269848