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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences : Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016365
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Sectoral Cognitive Skills, R&D, and Productivity : A Cross-Country Cross-Sector Analysis
Sasso, Simone - 2017
, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966051
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143681
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Human Capital Development : New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills
Mitchell, Mark; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2021
especially with regard to time use and cross-productivity with cognition. We find that individuals with higher task effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315157
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Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870142
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Misallocation and Inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …
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Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco - 2020
agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … selection as a root cause of the agricultural productivity gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843712
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Changing Returns to Occupational Skill and Women's Wages
Schran, Felix - 2019
This paper investigates to what extent changes in the returns to occupational skill and declining occupational segregation have reduced wage inequality between men and women. As a first pass, I find that roughly 65% of the decline in the gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861289
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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007
This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777274
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E.; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2021
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317022