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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new … that an additional year of parental education increases sons' weekly wages by 11.7% after twenty years of experience and … it appears the result of both a glass ceiling effect, due to the complementarity between parental education and son …

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Inmigración en Panamá : ¿complemento o sustituto?

Székely, Miguel; Linares, Jennifer - 2018

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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth

Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019

We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with occupation mobility, human capital accumulation and endogenous assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological innovations. We extend recent quantitative general...

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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023

: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …-educated women (those with incomplete secondary education). However, progress has not been equal across all the countries in the …

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Race-based educational, occupational and industry segregation and wages gaps in Trinidad and Tobago

Schimanski, Caroline; Chagalj, Cristian; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2018

majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … heterogeneity both in terms of segregation and wage gaps across education levels, occupations, industries and sectors. Racial wage … decomposition techniques, this study furthermore provides evidence of large heterogeneity in returns to education and a shift in the …

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Training and search on the job

Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016

The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...

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Back to the future : changing job profiles in the digital age

Lorenz, Hanno; Stephany, Fabian - 2018

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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Are the more educated receiving more training? : evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …

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Skills or a degree? : the rise of skills-based hiring for AI and green jobs

Ehlinger, Eugenia Gonzalez; Stephany, Fabian - 2023

same time, the mention of university education for AI roles declined by 23 percent, while AI roles advertise fi ve times as … formats such as apprenticeships, on-the-job training, MOOCs (massive open online courses), vocational education and training …

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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