• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Human capital formation on skill-specific labor markets
  • Contributor: Xie, Runli [Author]
  • imprint: Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, 2011
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: human capital investment ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; J63 ; Bildungsinvestition ; skill-specific unemployment ; J24 ; Faktorsubstitution ; Haushaltsökonomik ; Schock ; idiosyncratic shock ; Arbeitsuche ; skill substitution ; Theorie ; E24 ; Qualifikation ; E32 ; Matching ; search and matching
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  • Description: Human capital investment is formed through households' endogenous decision, and competes with physical capital investment. Idiosyncratic shock shifts the skilled labor share and changes tightness in both skilled and unskilled markets. Given inelastic labor participation, the model can generate downward-sloping Beveridge curves in aggregate, skilled and unskilled labor markets. Upon a neutral shock, total unemployment decrease is two-staged: firstly with a reduction in unskilled unemployment, and then due to a sharp decline of skilled unemployment when skill substitution dominates. A higher elasticity of substitution between two types of labor leads to higher volatility of the model variables and higher u - v correlation.
  • Access State: Open Access