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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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The value of human and social capital investments for the business performance of start-ups

Bosma, Niels; Praag, Mirjam van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; … - 2002

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …

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Comparative advantage, relative wages, and the accumulation of human capital

Teulings, Coen N. - 2002

I apply Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantage to a theory of factor substitutability in a model with a continuum of worker and job types. Highly skilled workers have a comparative advantage in complex jobs. The model satisfies the distance-dependent elasticity of substitution (DIDES)...

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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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Comparative advantage, relative wages, and the accumulation of human capital

Teulings, Coen N. - 2002

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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-Sponsored General Training in Frictional Labour Markets : An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael - 2004

According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical models of training in frictional labour market. These frictions create incentives for firms to...

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