Coping with change: International differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric A.; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon und Wößmann, Ludger (2017): Coping with change: International differences in the returns to skills. In: Economics Letters, Bd. 153: S. 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.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• ISSN: 0165-1765
• Sprache: Englisch