Coping with change: International differences in the returns to skills

Eric Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Simon Wiederhold () and Ludger Woessmann

Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 153, issue C, 15-19

Abstract: International data from the PIAAC survey allow estimation of comparable labor-market returns to skills for 32 countries. Returns to skills are larger in faster growing economies, consistent with the hypothesis that skills are particularly important for adaptation to economic change.

Keywords: Returns to skills; Economic growth; Cognitive skills; International comparisons; Disequilibria; Knowledge capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J3 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.01.007

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