Omitted Variables in the Measure of a Labour Quality Index: The Case of Spain

Lacuesta, Aitor; Puente, Sergio; Cuadrado, Pilar

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“…There are a few other studies that develop an index for the measurement of labour quality growth employing a wage equation approach, i.e. Bolli and Zurlinden (2012) and Lacuesta et al (2011).…”

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Lumpy investments, factor adjustments, and labour productivity

Nilsen

Raknerud

Rybalka

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Oxford Economic Papers

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Many people have contributed to this dissertation with kindly offered advice, encouragement, inspiration, support, and friendship. First of all, I wish to thank my supervisor Jarle Møen and cosupervisor Erik Biørn, for patience, supporting advice and thoughtful comments. Special thanks to my co-authors, in alphabetical order, Ådne Cappelen, Øivind A. Nilsen, Arvid Raknerud and Terje Skjerpen for inspiring and insightful discussions. All of them have contributed in numerous ways to this dissertation and have improved my ability to carry out economic research. It has been an honour and a pleasure to work with them. This dissertation is the result of my work on different projects in the Research Department of Statistics Norway. I thank my colleagues in the Research Department for providing an inspiring and pleasant working environment. In particular, I wish to thank, in chronological order, Torbjørn Haegeland, Mads Greaker and Erik Fjaerli, who all have been the head of research units where I have been employed, for embarking with me on this doctoral journey and for providing an opportunity to fulfil it. I also would like to thank the department of Economics, University of Oslo, for having me as a Ph.D. student; the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen for having me as a guest during spring 2009; and the organizers (the Centre of European Economic Research, ZEW) and participants at the Competition and Innovation Summer School in 2012 for providing a professional and inspiring arena for sharing experience and discussing preliminary work. I acknowledge the financial support from the Research Council of Norway (for the writing of the first, third and fourth papers) and from the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (for the writing of the final paper). Finally, I thank my family and friends for their love and support. Special thanks to my mother Elena for always believing in me, to my father Vladimir for always challenging me, to my husband Håvard for always supporting me, and to my two children, Katarina and Henrik, for making my doctoral journey more meaningful. Oslo, April 2015 Marina Rybalka Essay 3: The effects of R&D tax credits on patenting and innovations With Ådne Cappelen and Arvid Raknerud Essay 4: Returns to public R&D grants and subsidies With Ådne Cappelen and Arvid Raknerud Essay 5: The innovative input mix: Assessing the importance of R&D and ICT investments for firm performance in manufacturing and services

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Lumpy investments, factor adjustments, and labour productivity

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Rybalka

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“…Large immigration flows received in the recent past has, at least partly (Banco de España, 2006;Lacuesta et al, forthcoming), contributed to poor productivity performance. Our paper has shown that the initial wage, or productivity, gap between natives and immigrants rapidly decreases as immigrants acquire countryspecific human capital.…”

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Assimilation of immigrants in Spain: A longitudinal analysis

2009

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“…In this paper, we use a simple labour supply and demand framework to investigate several possible explanations for the development of the Spanish wage structure during the period 1995-2010. We first document the importance of distinguishing between changes in the composition of employment and changes in the returns to specific workers' and jobs' characteristics to explain the observed wage evolution.Among the most relevant factors that might imply significant composition effects on the supply side are the educational upgrade of the labour force (see Lacuesta, Puente and Cuadrado, 2010) and huge immigration flows (see Carrasco, Jimeno and Ortega, 2008). 2 On the demand side, major factors include the increasing importance of the construction sector, which leads to an increasing share of low-paid workers (see Gonzalez and Ortega, 2013).…”

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Returns to Skills and the Distribution of Wages: Spain 1995–2010

2014

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In contrast to the pattern observed in other developed countries, the Spanish wage distribution compressed between 1995 and 2006 and became more disperse afterwards, so that in 2010 wage inequality was roughly similar to 1995. In this paper, we analyze the role of supply and demand factors when accounting for these facts. We start by decomposing observed wage changes into changes in the composition of the labour force and changes in the returns of workers' and jobs' characteristics. The results indicate that the compression of the wage distribution between 1995 and 2006 is largely explained by changes in returns, and particularly, by a decrease in the returns to education. We show that both the increase in the supply of high-skilled workers and the increasing weight of low-skilled occupations are related to the decreasing trend in the skill premium over this period. In contrast, the widening of the wage distribution after 2006 is largely explained by an increase in the relative demand for high-skilled workers generating an increase in the school premium.

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Omitted Variables in the Measure of a Labour Quality Index: The Case of Spain

Cited by 44 publications

References 47 publications

Lumpy investments, factor adjustments, and labour productivity

Lumpy investments, factor adjustments, and labour productivity

Assimilation of immigrants in Spain: A longitudinal analysis

Returns to Skills and the Distribution of Wages: Spain 1995–2010

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