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Language and labor market success
Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014
This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language … ongoing globalization leads to an increased demand for foreign language proficiency to reduce search and information costs and … migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
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Convergences in men's and women's life patterns : lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment
Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2014
The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look at evolving patterns. In this paper, we use 50...
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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany
Heidland, Tobias - 2013
premia for applying their native language on the job in addition to those for English, their trade-fostering potential seems …
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Comparative advantage, relative wages, and the accumulation of human capital
Teulings, Coen N. - 2002
I apply Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantage to a theory of factor substitutability in a model with a continuum of worker and job types. Highly skilled workers have a comparative advantage in complex jobs. The model satisfies the distance-dependent elasticity of substitution (DIDES)...
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Ability distribution and dynamics of wage inequality : unintended consequences of human capital accumulation
Borissov, Kirill; Minabutdinov, Aleksey; Popov, Roman - 2024
This study investigates the dynamics of between-group and within-group wage inequality in a model with heterogeneous learning abilities putting a key emphasis on the shape of the ability distribution. In our model, intergenerational human capital externalities incentivize individuals to invest...
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Labor earnings, misallocation, and the returns to education in Mexico
Levy, Santiago; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2016
Over the last two decades Mexico has had an open trade regime, experienced macroeconomic stability, and made substantial progress in education. However, average workers¿ earnings have stagnated and earnings for workers with more schooling have declined, compressing the earnings distribution and...
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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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Do Mincerian Wage Equations Inform How Schooling Influences Productivity?
Groth, Christian - 2017
We study the links between the Mincerian wage equation (the cross-sectional relationship between wages and years of schooling) and the human capital production function (the causal effect of schooling on labor productivity). Based on a stylized Mincerian general equilibrium model with imperfect...
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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 Evolution of the Returns to Human Capital in Canada, 1980-2005
Boudarbat, Brahim - 2010
We examine the evolution of the returns to human capital in Canada over the period 1980-2005. Our main finding is that returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise took place in the early 1980s and since 1995....
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