Cross-country Variation in Educational Attainment: Structural Change or Within Industry Skill Upgrading?∗
نویسنده
چکیده
Educational attainment varies greatly across countries and within countries over time. This paper asks whether the variation in education is primarily due to industry composition or to within industry skill intensities. The main finding is that within industry variation accounts for at least two-thirds of the cross-country and the time series variation in educational attainment. The within industry education gaps are broadly consistent with a model of industry neutral cross-country differences in skilled labor productivity. These results suggest that theories of educational development should focus on skill upgrading within industries rather than structural change.
منابع مشابه
Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Contribute to Skill Upgrading in Developing Countries?
How do multinational firms affect both the demand for and supply of skills in hostcountry labor markets? On the demand side, inward can FDI stimulate demand for moreskilled workers in host countries through several channels. To date, most empirical evidence indicates that these channels work mainly within multinationals themselves, rather than through knowledge spillovers to domestic firms. On ...
متن کاملSkill Upgrading and Imports in US Manufacturing
The majority of skill-upgrading in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s was due to within industry shifts in skill-intensity. Traditional trade theory, represented by the HeckscherOhlin model, predicts that trade affects relative employment primarily by shifting resources across industries. For this reason, many economists have concluded that international trade has played a minor rol...
متن کاملWork-life inequality at the intersection of class and gender
This article traces work-life evolution in Sweden during recent decades against the backdrop of long-run structural change tied to class and gender. We examine the development of four key labor market features: (a) occupational sex segregation, (b) gender gaps in job quality, (c) skill upgrading and mismatch, and (d) youth employment. While occupational and educational upgrading is beneficial f...
متن کاملLiteracy Gaps by Educational Attainment: A Comparative Study of 19 Countries
Using data of literacy skills among adults aged 26 to 35 from the International Adult Literacy Survey, we compare the degree of literacy gaps between those who completed tertiary education and those who did not graduate from high schools across 19 countries. The result of ordinary least square regression shows that although those with a higher level of educational attainment tend to have a high...
متن کاملارتقاء مهارتهای کارآفرینی سرمایه هستاننگار با استفاده از پرتال آموزش کارآفرینی
Nowadays, organizational portals hold a key role in disseminating organizational information at different layers. Within their scope, educational portals are particularly significant, due to their ability in upgrading users’ knowledge and skill in realizing entrepreneurship business. Considering the geographical distributed-ness as well as job variation in entrepreneurship and the parameters wh...
متن کامل