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that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and …
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This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major …, we find that the wages of people aged under 35 basically depend on the level of education attained, while those of … the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a …
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We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability … with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …
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Matched employee-employer data from the UK are used to investigate the importance of social skills, in particular team … social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage progression with tenure and also accrue higher returns in firms with a higher … concentration of more educated colleagues. Additionally, workers exit sooner from jobs where social skills are more important. We …
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sharp characterization for the optimal mobility of individual workers and for the aggregate supply of skills across …
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The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous … training induce higher wages within jobs, and with future employers, even conditional on the future employer type. Because …
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In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...
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This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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ways. Low-carbon jobs have higher skill requirements across a broad range of skills, especially technical ones. However … associated with re-skilling and earning losses, indicating public investments in skills is needed to deliver a smooth and rapid …
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