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Household skills and low wages

2008

Originally published in the journal Journal of Population Economics, Springer http://www.springerlink.com/content/100520/ Household skills provide job skills when tasks in jobs and household production are similar and jobs produce substitutes for home-made services. Opportunity costs of higher education are foregone earnings during schooling and foregone household production while studying and later in life. I show that individuals in jobs requiring household skills accept lower wage rates than traditional human capital theory predicts, and that individuals with low household skills tend to enter higher education. According to these results, declining household skills may have contributed t…

Labour economicsEconomics and EconometricsOpportunity costEarningsHigher educationbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjecteducationWageVDP::Social science: 200::Women's and gender studies: 370Human capitalbehavioral disciplines and activitiesPeer reviewHousehold productionEconomicsHuman capitalVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212Production (economics)businesshealth care economics and organizationsSocial policymedia_commonDemographyJournal of Population Economics
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ESTIMATION OF AN EXTENDED SAM WITH HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION FOR SPAIN 1995

2005

This paper implements the conceptual framework sketched by Pyatt (1990) to construct an extended Social Accounting Matrix for Spain in 1995 (ESAM-95) to consider, in addition to the market economy, the production of services provided by households through unpaid work. In doing so, the ESAM-95 integrates the accounts related to market activities (ESA accounts) with non-market activities (non-ESA accounts) in a consistent way. Additional classifications are introduced in both ESA and non-ESA accounts in order to disaggregate the institutional accounts by household type and those of production factors by educational level and gender. The extended SAM is useful to calibrate CGE models in which …

MacroeconomicsComputable general equilibriumEconomics and Econometricsjel:C80business.industryNational accountsDistribution (economics)Factors of productionjel:C68jel:E01Matriz de Contabilidad Social; uso del tiempo; producción de los hogares Social accounting matrix; use of time; household productionOrder (exchange)Unpaid workEconomicsEconometricsProduction (economics)businessSocial accounting matrix
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