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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444417
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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444868
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Allocation of female talent and cross-country productivity differences
Lee, Munseob - 2023
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394245
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403
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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis
Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016
, 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/10011595984
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Contribution of human capital accumulation to Canadian economic growth
Bowlus, Audra J.; Park, Youngmin; Robinson, Chris - 2022
hour and total factor productivity. Using a "flat spot" identification strategy, we separately estimate the price and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175437
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Human capital misallocation and output per worker differences : beyond Cobb-Douglas
Trenczek, Jan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2023 - This version: September 28, 2023
Misallocation of human capital across sectors can have substantial negative implications for aggregate output. So far, the literature examining this type of labor misallocation has assumed a Cobb-Douglas production function. Our paper departs from this assumption and instead considers more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429346
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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520525
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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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Inequality Affects Long-Run Growth : Cross-Industry, Cross-Country Evidence
Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - 2020
The theoretical literature has predicted that inequality affects long-run growth by reducing human and physical capital, particularly in the presence of imperfect credit markets and other contractual frictions. We test these four mechanisms using measures of inequality at the country-level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835129