Tasks and Heterogeneous Human Capital

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yamaguchi, Shintaro
• 署名单位: McMaster University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/662066
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 1-53
• 关键词: young men; comparative advantage; occupational choice; job mobility; skill; MODEL; specificity; search; GROWTH; wages

摘要

This article proposes a new approach to modeling heterogeneous human capital using task data from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. The key feature of the model is that it departs from the Roy model, which treats occupations as distinct categories and conceives of occupations as bundles of tasks. The advantages of this approach are that it can accommodate many occupations without computational burden and provide a clear interpretation as to how and why skills are differently rewarded across occupations. The model is structurally estimated by the Kalman filter using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.