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Title: A Regional Approach to Productive Skills

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: This research furthers the knowledge of how skill and the demand for skill impacts regional labor markets. Skill more specifically measures the human capital level of the labor force and its heterogeneity. The first essay provides evidence that men and women as labor inputs into the production function may have inherently different butcomplementary skill sets. Utilizing regional differences in female employment share, the impact of women on productivity is estimated using an instrumentalvariables approach to determine causality.Inherent differences in skill may have contributed to women and certain cities faring better in the most recent recessions. By combining employment data with detaileddata on specific skills by occupation, the value of skills over time and within recessions is estimated and any recession-proof skills rooted out. Human capital and more specifically cognitive skills are rewarded in the economy through wages but also through a higher probability of employment over time and within recessions.Demand shocks for specifically skilled workers in particular those in the oil and gas extraction industry have also affected economic growth in regions. The labor market restructuring that occurs as a result of displacement effects and the higher wages that result from a natural resource boom shed light on the natural resource curse noted in the literature.

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Authors: Weinstein, Amanda L.

Institution: The Ohio State University

Department: Environmental and Development Economics

Advisor: Mark D. Partridge

Degree: Ph.D

Publisher Location: Colombus, OH

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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