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Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana

Gradín, Carlos; Schotte, Simone - 2020

In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the …

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Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium

Burdett, Kenneth - 2009

- where over time more experienced workers also tend to find and quit to better paid employment - has a significant impact on …

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Do Pimples Pay? Acne, Human Capital, and the Labor Market

Mialon, Hugo M. - 2018

We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to investigate the association between having acne in middle to high school and subsequent educational and labor market outcomes. We find that having acne is strongly positively associated with overall grade point...

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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile

Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …

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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments

Fryer, R.G. - 2017

Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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ICT skills and labor market outcomes in India : evidence from cell tower expansion

Azam, Mehtabul; Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2024

participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … index increases the probability of salaried employment by 6.5 percentage points, and leads to a 9.5 percent higher per … capita expenditure. Employment transitions happen from daily wage employment and self-employment to salaried employment. The …

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Expected work experience : a new human capital measure

Zveglich, Joseph E.; Rodgers, Yana; Laviña, Editha A. - 2019

Work experience is a key variable in earnings function estimates and wage gap decompositions. Because data on actual work experience are rare, studies commonly use proxies, such as potential experience. But potential experience is identical for all individuals of the same age and level of...

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Signaling specific skills and the labor market of college graduates

Busso, Matias; Montaño, Sebastián; Muñoz-Morales, Juan - 2023

We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...

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Global divergence in the de-routinization of jobs

Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2023

different income levels. Combining these with employment data in 87 economies, the results show that occupations in low- and …

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