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Classroom rank in math, occupational choices and labor market outcomes
Brox, Enzo; Davoli, Maddalena; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014555929
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268280
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Anatomy of lifetime earnings inequality : heterogeneity in job ladder risk vs. human capital
Karahan, Fatih; Ozkan, Serdar; Song, Jae - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803480
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Horizontal mismatch and vocational education
Schweri, Jürg; Eymann, Annina; Aepli, Manuel - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022607
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290001
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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany
Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023
This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445769
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Specific human capital and skills in Indian manufacturing: observed wage and tenure relationships from a worker survey
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Abhishek, Kumar - 2020
capital investment by crucially investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages - this has come to be an … reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296684
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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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Job ladder, human capital, and the cost of job loss
Audoly, Richard; De Pace, Federica; Fella, Giulio - 2022
High-tenure workers who lose their jobs experience a large and prolonged fall in wages and earnings. The aim of this …, the model can replicate the size and persistence of the losses in earnings and wages observed in the data. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472115
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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