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Title: Long-Run Substitutability between More and Less Educated Workers: Evidence from U.S. States 1950-1990

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2004

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.563853

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Abstract: We estimate the aggregate long-run elasticity of substitution between more and less educated workers (the slope of the demand curve for more relative to less educated workers) at the US state level. Our data come from the (five) 1950-1990 decennial censuses. Our empirical approach allows for state and time fixed effects and relies on time and state dependent child labor and compulsory school attendance laws as instruments for (endogenous) changes in the relative supply of more educated workers. We find the aggregate long-run elasticity of substitution between more and less educated workers to be around 1.5.

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Authors: Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni

Series Title: UPF Economics and Business Working Paper

Publication Number: 764

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Publisher Location: Barcelona

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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