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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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Career progression and comparative advantage

Yamaguchi, Shintaro - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 17 (2010) 4, pp. 679-689

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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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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany

Heidland, Tobias - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 32 (2015), pp. 86-98

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The value of foreign language skills in the German labor market

Hahm, Sabrina; Gazzola, Michele - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 76 (2022), pp. 1-29

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The persistent impact of multiple offers

Guo, Junjie - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 74 (2022), pp. 1-14

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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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Occupational specificity : a new measurement based on training curricula and its effect on labor market outcomes

Eggenberger, Christian; Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 51 (2018), pp. 97-107

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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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The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa

Falco, Paolo; Kerr, Andrew; Rankin, Neil; Sandefur, Justin - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 18 (2011), pp. 23-31

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