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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
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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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
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
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Allocation of female talent and cross-country productivity differences
Lee, Munseob - 2023
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394245
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Motherhood and the allocation of talent
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582323
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Reducing skills imbalances to foster productivity growth of Malaysia
Espinoza, Ricardo; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203203
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Can Older Workers Stay Productive? The Role of ICT Skills and Training
Lee, Jong-Wha; Kwak, Do Won; Song, Eunbi - 2021
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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Natural Resources and Global Misallocation
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903849
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Selection and absolute advantage in farming and entrepreneurship
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Amodio, Francesco; … - 2019
agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … selection as a root cause of the agricultural productivity gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153418
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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642399
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403