Returns to experience across tasks: evidence from Brazil

Gustavo Gonzaga and Tomás Guanziroli

Applied Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 26, issue 20, 1718-1723

Abstract: Using a rich Brazilian panel dataset and an occupation-task mapping, we investigate whether returns to experience depend on the types of jobs performed by workers. We find that returns to experience in non-routine tasks, especially returns to analytical tasks, are much larger than returns to routine tasks. This gap increases with schooling, suggesting that schooling and non-routine tasks are complementary in the human capital production function. These are important findings for developing countries similar to Brazil, where approximately 70% of workers’ tasks are routine.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1593927

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