Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills /

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have grow...

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Weitere Titel:
Coping with Change
1. Verfasser:
Hanushek, Eric A.
Körperschaft:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Weitere Verfasser:
Schwerdt, Guido, Wiederhold, Simon, Woessmann, Ludger
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
Zusammenfassung:
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have grown faster in the recent past, consistent with models where skills are particularly important for adaptation to dynamic economic change.
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1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Anmerkungen:
September 2016.
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