Occupations, Human Capital and Skills.

Economists have long recognized that occupations can be used as proxies for skills in wage regressions. Yet the potential existence of non-market factors such as discrimination and occupational choice (sorting) on the basis of job attributes that are separate from, but potentially correlated with, w...

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Published in:	Journal of Labor Research Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 365 - 387
Main Authors:	Levenson, Alec, Zoghi, Cindy
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. December 2010
Subjects:	Job classification Wage differentials Employment & education Skilled labor Human capital Mathematical models Wages United States
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