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The Evolution of U.S. Wages: Skill Prices versus Human Capital

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  • Lutz Hendricks

    (UNC Chapel Hill)

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The objective of this paper is to decompose movements in U.S. wages into movements of skill prices and labor qualities. The idea is to interpret the age-wage profiles of various birth cohorts observed in CPS data through the lens of human capital theory. Theory predicts that age-efficiency profiles should be concave (absent large skill price changes) and vary systematically with cohort education. I develop a model of school choice and on-the-job training and calibrate it to post-war U.S. wage data. The model measures the initial endowments (at age 17) and age-human capital profiles of each birth cohort as well as the school-specific skill prices for each year.

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  • Lutz Hendricks, 2012. "The Evolution of U.S. Wages: Skill Prices versus Human Capital," 2012 Meeting Papers 320, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    1. Kartik B. Athreya & Janice Eberly, 2013. "The supply of college-educated workers: the roles of college premia, college costs, and risk," Working Paper 13-02, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

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