How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach

This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data ontasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital tomeasure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility andwages show that labor market skills are more portable than previously considered...

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Year of publication:	2007-09-01
Authors:	Gathmann, Christina ; Schönberg, Uta
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Humankapital \| Fachwissen \| expert knowledge \| Besetzung

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Extent:	355328 bytes 57 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 3067 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; Personnel administration. Human resources management. General ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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