Estimating the benefit of high school for university‐bound students: evidence of subject‐specific human capital accumulation

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 441-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis‐Philippe Morin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Specific Human Capital

scholarly journals Wage Growth Due to Human Capital Accumulation and Job Search: A Comparison between the United States and Germany

ILR Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uta Schönberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Wage Growth ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital

This paper compares the sources of wage growth of young male workers in two countries with very different labor market institutions, the United States and Germany. The author first develops a simple method for decomposing wage growth into components due to general human capital accumulation, firm-specific human capital accumulation, and job search. The empirical analysis uses data from administrative records (Germany) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (United States) for cohorts entering the labor market in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although the two countries differed substantially in mobility rates, they were similar in the sources of wage growth, with general human capital accumulation being the most important single source and job search accounting for an additional 25% or more of total wage growth. There is no evidence that returns to firm-specific human capital accumulation were higher for German apprentices than for U.S. high school dropouts or graduates.

scholarly journals Trade, Wage Gaps, and Specific Human Capital Accumulation

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngo Van Long ◽  
Raymond Riezman ◽  
Antoine Soubeyran
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Wage Gaps ◽  
Specific Human Capital

Human Capital Accumulation and Resource Abundance

2011 ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
O. Vasilieva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Human Capital Accumulation ◽  
Resource Abundance ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Crowd Out

Does resource abundance positively affect human capital accumulation? Or, alternatively, does it «crowd out» the human capital leading to the deterioration of economic growth? The paper gives an overview of the relevant literature and discusses both theoretical and empirical results obtained regarding the connection between human capital accumulation and resource abundance. It shows that despite some theoretical predictions about the harmful effect of resource abundance on human capital accumulation, unambiguous evidence of such impact that would be robust with respect to the change of resource abundance parameter has not been obtained yet.

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