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The human capital heterogeneity at the Russian labor market
Gleb, Borisov - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2005
-random distribution of unobservable skills across the population of a transition country. At the beginning of the transition, people who …. This results in the differences in unobservable abilities and earnings capacity of people. We argue that cohort, a pre-transition … occupation, an urban place of birth, and nationality might serve as proxies for unobservable skills in the transition. The cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519042
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Segmented Life-cycle Labor Markets – Portuguese Evidence
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate – net of depreciation – of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496153
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Segmented life-cycle labor markets : Portuguese evidence
Martins, Ana Paula - 2011
The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate - net of depreciation - of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524845
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Segmented Life-cycle Labor Markets – Portuguese Evidence
Martins, Ana Paula - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2011
The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate – net of depreciation – of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008917767
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Segmented Life-cycle Labor Markets
Martins, Ana Paula - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 55 (2012) 1, pp. 39-74
The paper contrasts the pattern of returns to human capital in different economic sectors. As job mobility, especially across sectors, is limited, it is argued that coefficients of experience in earnings regressions may capture or be interpreted as the growth rate – net of depreciation – of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078561
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives: The role of occupational attainment
Aringa, Carlo Dell; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586036
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Skilled or educated? Educational reforms, human capital and earnings
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Castelnovo, Paolo; Checchi, Daniele; … - 2016
We use OECD-PIAAC data to estimate the earnings effects of both years of education and of numerical skills. Our identification strategy exploits differential exposure to educational reforms across birth cohorts and countries. We find that education has the strongest earnings effect. A one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739627
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Provincial valuations of human capital in urban China, inter-regional inequality and the implicit value of a Guangdong hukou
Zax, Jeffrey - 2016
This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790074
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The skill balancing act: Determinants of and returns to balanced skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281651
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526519