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Do Mincerian Wage Equations Inform How Schooling Influences Productivity?

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  • Christian Groth
  • Jakub Growiec

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We study the links between the Mincerian wage equation (the cross-sectional relationship between wages and years of schooling) and the human capital production function (the causal effect of schooling on labor productivity). Based on a stylized Mincerian general equilibrium model with imperfect substitutability across skill types and ex ante identical workers, we demonstrate that the mechanism of compensating wage differentials renders the Mincerian wage equation uninformative for the human capital production function. Proper identification of the human capital production function should take into account the equilibrium allocation of individuals across skill types.

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  • Christian Groth & Jakub Growiec, 2017. "Do Mincerian Wage Equations Inform How Schooling Influences Productivity?," EUSP Department of Economics Working Paper Series 2017/04, European University at St. Petersburg, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:eus:wpaper:ec2017_04
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    2. Łukasz Jabłoński, 2021. "Ewolucja podejść do kapitału ludzkiego w naukach ekonomicznych," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 2, pages 91-120.
    3. Jablonowski Janusz, 2021. "Internal Rate of Return on Investment in Higher Education in Europe," Wroclaw Review of Law, Administration & Economics, Sciendo, vol. 11(1), pages 1-19, December.

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    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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