Arbeitspapier
Coping with Change: International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potentialsources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in amore diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that havegrown faster in the recent past, consistent with models where skills are particularly important foradaptation to dynamic economic change.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 6114
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Education and Research Institutions: General
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- Subject
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cognitive skills
returns to education
economic growth
international comparisons
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hanushek, Eric A.
Schwerdt, Guido
Wiederhold, Simon
Woessmann, Ludger
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hanushek, Eric A.
- Schwerdt, Guido
- Wiederhold, Simon
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2016
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