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Ability distribution and dynamics of wage inequality : unintended consequences of human capital accumulation

Borissov, Kirill; Minabutdinov, Aleksey; Popov, Roman - 2024

capital externalities incentivize individuals to invest in skills, consequently reshaping the composition of the labor force …

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Preschoolers' self-regulation, skill differentials, and early educational outcomes

Quis, Johanna Sophie; Bela, Anika; Heineck, Guido - 2019

observations of self-regulatory behavior as well as mathematical skills and allows controlling for a rich set of relevant …

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Economic analysis of supply functions, private returns to investment in education and skill mismatch in Egypt

Biltagy, Marwa Shibl - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 8 (2019) 1, pp. 81-95

Education provides good health, empowerment and employment to all people in the society. Accordingly, education can make a lifelong difference in individuals' lives. It is proved that, on average, there is a positive relationship between each additional year of schooling and the income of an...

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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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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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The schooling response to a sustained increase in low-skill wages : evidence from Spain 1989-2009

Lacuesta, Aitor; Puente, Sergio; Villanueva, Ernesto - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 4, pp. 457-499

skills supplied to the labor market, the productivity of future cohorts, and the evolution of inequality. Unlike the USA, the … UK or Germany, Spain has experienced between 1995 and 2008 a drop in the returns to medium and tertiary education and …

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Migration Options for Skilled Labor and Optimal Investment in Human Capital

Ghoddusi, Hamed; Siyahhan, Baran - 2015

This paper develops a model of optimal education choice of an agent who has an option to emigrate. Using a real options framework, we analyze the time evolution of human capital in the home country and investigate the role of migration opportunities in the accumulation of different types of...

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The different returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets

Bastani, Spencer; Karlsson, Kristina; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023

We investigate the returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets. Using population-wide Swedish military enlistment data and administrative tax records, we find that cognitive ability is much better at predicting capital income than labor earnings. The difference is almost a...

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The different returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets

Bastani, Spencer; Karlsson, Kristina; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023

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Four Facts about Human Capital

Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

young adulthood. Third, we know how to build foundational skills such as literacy and numeracy, and resources are often the … main constraint. Fourth, higher-order skills such as problem-solving and teamwork are increasingly valuable, and the … technology for producing these skills is not well-understood. We know that investment in education works and that skills matter …

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