| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29135 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29135 |
| Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence | |
| Santiago Hermo; Miika M. Päällysaho; David G. Seim; Jesse M. Shapiro | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-09 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A large literature in cognitive science studies the puzzling “Flynn effect” of rising fluid intelligence (reasoning skill) in rich countries. We develop an economic model in which a cohort’s mix of skills is determined by different skills’ relative returns in the labor market and by the technology for producing skills. We estimate the model using administrative data from Sweden. Combining data from exams taken at military enlistment with earnings records from the tax register, we document an increase in the relative labor market return to logical reasoning skill as compared to vocabulary knowledge. The estimated model implies that changes in labor market returns explain 37 percent of the measured increase in reasoning skill, and can also explain the decline in knowledge. An original survey of parents, an analysis of trends in school curricula, and an analysis of occupational characteristics show evidence of increasing emphasis on reasoning as compared to knowledge. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation ; Development and Growth ; Country Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29135 |
| 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/586809 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Santiago Hermo,Miika M. Päällysaho,David G. Seim,et al. Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence. 2021. |
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| w29135.pdf（758KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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