Much work has been done in recent years to abstract computational models of human controlcomputational models of human control strategy (HCS) that are capable of accurately emulating dynamic human control behaviors. Land-based autonomous vehicles, both in simulation and on real roads, have made successful use of this modeling formalism. Little work has been done, however, in attempting such ski...

Improvement of the work efficiency is demanded by aging and reducing of the working population in the construction field, so that some automation technologies are applied to construction equipment, such as bulldozers and excavators. However, not only the automation technologies but also expert skills are necessary to improve the work efficiency. In this paper, the human skill evaluation is prop...

We estimate a standard human capital earnings model, augmented to allow for different firmspecific wage premia. The earnings of an individual depend on her human capital bundle and the earnings mark-up of the firm she is currently working for. We use linked employer-employee data from Norway which allows us to directly estimate the skill premium as a function of firm specific variables such as ...

This paper develops new economic models to synthesize and interpret the empirical literature on human skill formation. It presents simple formal economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the...