| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w11032 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 11032 |
| Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland | |
| James J. Heckman; Dimitriy V. Masterov | |
| 发表日期 | 2005-01-10 |
| 出版年 | 2005 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that early disadvantages produce severe later disadvantages that are hard to remedy. We also show that cognitive ability is not the only determinant of education, labor market outcomes and pathological behavior like crime. Abilities differ in their malleability over the life-cycle, with noncognitive skills being more malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up early, and schooling merely widens them. Additional university tuition subsidies or improvements in school quality are not warranted by Scottish evidence. Company-sponsored job training yields a higher return for the most able and so this form of investment will exacerbate the gaps it is intended to close. For the same reason, public job training is not likely to help adult workers whose skills are rendered obsolete by skill-biased technological change. Targeted early interventions, however, have proven to be very effective in compensating for the effect of neglect. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w11032 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568667 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | James J. Heckman,Dimitriy V. Masterov. Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland. 2005. |
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| w11032.pdf（1287KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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