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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...
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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
In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market besides the well … into self-employment. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender … differences in nonmarket responsibilities that can have sizable impacts on aggregate market productivity. We also show that the …
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higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …
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This paper quantitatively examines the effects of aging on labor productivity using individual worker data in Korea. We … a productivity decrease in line with the aging process can be mitigated by training aging workers to equip themselves …
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Are production factors allocated efficiently across countries? To differentiate misallocation from factor intensity differences, we provide a new methodology to estimate output shares of natural resources based solely on current rent flows data. With this methodology, we construct a new dataset...
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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...
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, 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 …
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This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …
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We study the aggregate productivity effects of firm-level financial frictions. Credit constraints affect not only …-invest in schooling. Frictions lower aggregate productivity because talent is misallocated across occupations, and capital … responses. We find that these effects combined account for about 1/5 of the U.S.-India aggregate productivity difference …
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