{"title":"Technology or Upskilling? Trends in the Task Composition of Jobs in Central and Eastern Europe","authors":"Wojciech Hardy, R. Keister, P. Lewandowski","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2886290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2886290","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we analyse the changes in the task content of jobs in Central and Eastern European countries between 1998 and 2013. We link the O*NET data on occupational characteristics with EU-LFS, following the approach of Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003), and Acemoglu and Autor (2011). We find that the CEE countries witnessed similar trends of rising intensity of non-routine cognitive tasks, and a decreasing intensity of manual tasks, although they differed with regards to changes in the routine cognitive task content. We assess the relative role played by education and technology in the development of task contents. We also decompose the observed changes into the contributions of sectoral, educational and occupational changes as well as the interaction between them. Our results show that workforce upskilling was the major factor behind the evolution of non-routine cognitive and manual tasks in CEE, whereas structural changes and shifts towards work with lower speed of de-routinisation have shaped routine cognitive tasks.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130839425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dealing with Student Heterogeneity: Curriculum Implementation Strategies and Student Achievement","authors":"Rosario Maria Ballatore, P. Sestito","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2896810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2896810","url":null,"abstract":"In this study we investigate the relationship between student achievement and a crucial aspect of teaching: curriculum implementation strategies. More specifically, we consider three strategies representing teachers' approach in dealing with heterogeneous classes: i) spending time on the same topic until everyone understands, ii) moving on to another topic even if part of the class does not understand the previous one, and iii) spending time to revise concepts and topics already studied in the previous year. We exploit the within-student between-subjects variation in the frequency with which different teachers adopt each of the three strategies to control for constant student and class traits and for the possibility that teachers may adapt their strategies to class composition. Our findings show that spending time on the same topic until everyone understands is not associated with a better performance of less able students. On the contrary, it produces substantial achievement losses for the most able ones. Spending time revising topics studied in the previous year increases the achievement of less able students without lowering the performance of the most able ones.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131072306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Retention Effect of Training – Portability, Visibility, and Credibility","authors":"D. Dietz, Thomas Zwick","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2760328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2760328","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an extensive German linked-employer-employee data set with detailed information on training history (WeLL-ADIAB), we show that training increases employees’ retention. We compare the probability to stay at the same employer between training participants and accidental training non-participants (those who could not participate in planned training on the basis of exogeneous reasons). Higher portability of general human capital contents and visibility of training induced by training certificates however reduce the retention effect of training. Retention is further reduced when training is credibly provided and certified by external institutions, the full training effect on retention is still positive, however. We are careful to control for endogeneity of training participation in retention equations, unobserved time-invariant effects, and extensive individual and employer characteristics including wage increases and general job satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127031819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Returns to Schooling by Work Experience","authors":"G. Marconi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3217146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3217146","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the effect of education on the rate of growth of a worker’s salary for workers with different levels of work experience. Two alternative models of the earnings curve are presented, the Mincer model and a model with wage premia that change over the course of a workers’ career. Then, I derive analytically the coefficients that would be obtained by estimating these two models with a dynamic panel data model in which earnings are a function of schooling and past earnings. Finally, I estimate these coefficients empirically using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The results indicate that the coefficients for schooling and lagged wage in a dynamic panel data model of the earnings curve display substantial variation by work experience, which seems more consistent with the dynamic wage premium model than with the Mincer model.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132179493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Refugees’ Labour Market Outcomes Different from Those of Other Migrants? Evidence from the United Kingdom in the 2005-2007 Period","authors":"Isabel Ruiz, Carlos Vargas‐Silva","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2704360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2704360","url":null,"abstract":"We merged the Survey of New Refugees (SNR) with the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS) to compare the labour market outcomes of refugees in the UK with those of other migrants. We compare new refugees with a full sample of LFS migrants and with a sample of recent LFS migrants. Controlling for relevant characteristics we find that eight and fifteen months after the grant of protection those in the SNR sample have significantly worse outcomes than those in the LFS sample, including a lower likelihood of being in employment and higher likelihood of unemployment. However, twenty-one months after the grant of protection the labour market outcomes of new refugees are not statistically different from those of recent migrants in the LFS sample and the difference with those in the full LFS sample decreases substantially. While refugees are initially at a significant labour market disadvantage the gap seems to disappear over time.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125309500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Returns to Skills in Europe – Same or Different? The Empirical Importance of the Systems of Regressions Approach","authors":"Mateusz Pipień, S. Roszkowska","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2805892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2805892","url":null,"abstract":"We estimate the Mincer equations for a set of European countries. The variability of parameters, describing the impact of years of schooling and the experience to the wages, was obtained by application of the system of Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equations (SURE). The differences between parameters were tested given two alternative stochastic assumptions. In the first model, no contemporaneous correlations between error terms in the system is imposed. This may be related to the standard country regression approach. In the second approach the unrestricted covariance matrix is considered, making error terms stochastically dependent. The contemporaneous correlations of error terms in the SURE system were empirically supported. Also, rich parameterisation of covariance matrix of contemporaneous relations reduced statistical uncertainty about differences in parameters describing return on education effect. Consequently, the country heterogeneity of return on education, which seems intuitively correct, was obtained in the system of regressions with complex stochastic structure.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130129453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Здоровье в структуре человеческого капитала молодежи (Health in the Structure of Human Capital of Youth)","authors":"D. Shcherbakova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3495930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3495930","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> В работе рассмотрено здоровье молодежи с позиции теории человеческого капитала, описаны основные этапы инвестирования в капитал здоровья, а также перечислены задачи по повышению качества здоровья молодого поколения на среднесрочную и долгосрочную перспективу.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> This article examines young people's health from the perspective of human capital theory, describes the main stages of investment in health capital, and also lists the tasks to improve the quality of health of the younger generation in the medium and long term.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125864260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parents' Education and Child Body Weight in France: The Trajectory of the Gradient in the Early Years","authors":"B. Apouey, P. Geoffard","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2683923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2683923","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the relationship between parental education and offspring body weight in France. Using two large datasets spanning the 1991-2010 period, we examine the existence of inequalities in maternal and paternal education and reported child body weight measures, as well as their evolution across childhood. Our empirical specification is flexible and allows this evolution to be non-monotonic. Significant inequalities are observed for both parents' education--maternal (respectively paternal) high education is associated with a 7.20 (resp. 7.10) percentage points decrease in the probability that the child is reported to be overweight or obese, on average for children of all ages. The gradient with respect to parents' education follows an inverted U-shape across childhood, meaning that the association between parental education and child body weight widens from birth to age 8, and narrows afterward. Specifically, maternal high education is correlated with a 5.30 percentage points decrease in the probability that the child is reported to be overweight or obese at age 2, but a 9.62 percentage points decrease at age 8, and a 1.25 percentage point decrease at age 17. The figures for paternal high education are respectively 5.87, 9.11, and 4.52. This pattern seems robust, since it is found in the two datasets, when alternative variables for parental education and reported child body weight are employed, and when controls for potential confounding factors are included. The findings for the trajectory of the income gradient corroborate those of the education gradient. The results may be explained by an equalization in actual body weight across socioeconomic groups during youth, or by changes in reporting styles of height and weight.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129253604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Методология Оценки Вклада Образования в Социально-Экономическое Развитие Российской Федерации и Ее Субъектов (Methodology of Assessment of Education Impact on Socio-Economic Development of the Russian Federation and its Constituents)","authors":"T. Klyachko, Sergei Beliakov","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2657038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2657038","url":null,"abstract":"The paper focuses on the development of methodology fro assessment of the contribution of education in the socio-economic development of the constituents of the Russian Federation. Author proposed two approaches to the assesstemt of the contribution of education to the socio-economic development of Russian regions: on the basis of salary bonus for the level of education and on the basis of salary differentiated according to employers age.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121696708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning by Problem Solving","authors":"P. Ederer, Ljubica Nedelkoska, Alexander Patt","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2673990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2673990","url":null,"abstract":"We present a learning by doing model that relates wages and skill development to the level of job complexity. We test our hypotheses about the job complexity effect using German Sample of Integrated Biographies data. We find that when tenure is low, wage growth is positively related to job complexity and negatively related to initial skill level, just as in our model. We calibrate the model and find that employees receive a positive wage premium to the complexity of their job and that workers in highly complex occupations acquire twice as much skills throughout life compared to less complex occupations.","PeriodicalId":102043,"journal":{"name":"ERN: Human Capital (Topic)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121315134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}