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Nonseparable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems

Grochulski, Borys - 2010

In this paper, we consider economies in which agents are privately informed about their skills, which are evolving …

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Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and Economic Growth

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kim, Dongwook - 2000

policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor force quality, measured by cognitive skills in mathematics and … have a strong and robust influence on growth. One standard deviation in measured cognitive skills translates into one … more standard quantity measure of labor force skills. Further, the estimated growth effects of improved labor force quality …

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Human Capital as Engine of Growth – the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and Across Countries

Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - 2022

Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between overlapping generations and across different skill groups within and across countries. We illustrate the...

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Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills

Caron, Justin - 2017

Almost all of the literature about the growth of income inequality and the relationship between skilled and unskilled wages approaches the issue from the production side of general equilibrium (skill-biased technical change, international trade). Here, we add a role for income-dependent demand...

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Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality : Some Problems and Puzzles

Card, David E.; DiNardo, John E. - 2021

The rise in wage inequality in the U.S. labor market during the 1980s is usually attributed to skill-biased technical change (SBTC), associated with the development of personal computers and related information technologies. We review the evidence in favor of this hypothesis, focusing on the...

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Technological Change and the Skill Acquisition of Young Workers

Bartel, Ann; Sicherman, Nachum - 2021

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and six proxies for industry rates of technological change, we study the impact of technological change on skill accumulation among young male workers in the manufacturing sector during the time period 1987 through 1992. Production workers...

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Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation

Heckman, James J. - 2021

This paper discusses recent advances in our understanding of differences in human abilities and skills, their sources …

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Labor Quality, the Demand for Skill, and Market Selection

Rosen, Sherwin - 2021

classifications depend on both the technology and the distribution of skills (factor supplies) in the working population, a fact that …

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Cities and Skills

Glaeser, Edward L.; Maré, David C. - 2021

This paper examines the productivity (and wage) gains from locating in dense, urban environments. We distinguish between three potential explanations of why firms are willing to pay urban workers more: (1) the urban wage premium is spurious and is the result of omitted ability measures, (2) the...

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Referrals

Garicano, Luis; Santos, Tano - 2021

Specialization requires that workers deal with some valuable opportunities themselves and refer other, possibly unverifiable, opportunities to other workers. How do markets and organizations ensure the matching of opportunities with talent in the presence of informational asymmetries about their...

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