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Are employability skills learned in US youth education and training programs?

Lerman, Robert Irving - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills …? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests … consensus is emerging that an array of non-academic skills and occupational skills may be at least as important for labor market …

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Human capital dynamics and the U.S. labor market

Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - 2014

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors influencing either the demand side or the supply side of the labor market. However, no matter what factors have caused the changes in the unemployment rate, these factors should...

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Can the United States Expand Apprenticeship? Lessons from Experience

Lerman, Robert I. - 2012

Can expanded apprenticeship reduce the concerns about the U.S. workforce? The U.S. labor market faces a rise in unemployment rates, sharp declines in the employed share of U.S. adults, extremely high youth unemployment, high wage inequality, and low or stagnant wage growth for workers below the...

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A comparative analysis of the labour market performance of university‐educated immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : does policy matter?

Clarke, Andrew; Ferrer, Ana M.; Skuterud, Mikal - 2018

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in...

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Can the United States expand apprenticeship? : lessons from experience

Lerman, Robert Irving - 2012

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Screening with Multitasking

Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...

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Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market

Fang, Lei - 2015

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Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market

Nie, Jun - 2014

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered as a result of changes in factors influencing either the demand side or the supply side of the labor market. However, no matter what factors have caused the changes in the unemployment rate, these factors should have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060854

Human Capital Resources and Requirements Across the Metropolitan Hierarchy of the USA

Scott, A.J. - 2010

This article is devoted to an investigation of the forms of human capital that characterize cities at different levels of the US urban hierarchy. Basic data on human capital are drawn from the O*Net information system. A first analytical exercise shows that for the USA as a whole, occupations...

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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth : Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew John - 2015

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...

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