Labor quality growth in Germany

Guido Schwerdt and Jarkko Turunen

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 3, 280-282

Abstract: Extending the common baseline model does not fundamentally change the low contribution of labor quality to productivity growth in Germany. Labor quality growth is low owing to a small increase in educational attainment of workers and declines in relative returns.

Keywords: Human; capital; Labor; quality; Productivity; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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