Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

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We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try and understand this finding theoretically, we consider a free trade model with two goods/industries, two skill types, and many regions that produce a fixed range of differentiated varieties of the same goods. We find that a calibrated version of the model can account for shifts in schooling supply being mostly absorbed through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production even if the elasticity of substitution between varieties is substantially higher than estimates in the literature.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ADB Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 377

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Education and Research Institutions: General ; Labor Demand ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: human capital ; skills ; schooling ; labor demand ; United States

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ciccone, Antonio ; Peri, Giovanni
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• (where): Manila
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/109489
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