Learning-by-doing versus on-the-job training: Using variation induced by the EITC to distinguish between models of skill formation

Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-End Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 74-130

  Heckman, James J ^a   Lochner, Lance ^b   Cossa, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144454769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511493447.004     Document Type: Chapter

References (21)

1. Altug, S. and R. Miller (1990). “Household Choices in Equilibrium,” Econometrica58(3): 543-570.
2. Altug, S. and R. Miller (1998). “The Effects of Work Experience on Female Wages and Labor Supply,” Review of Economic Studies65(222): 45-67.
3. Becker, G. (1964). Human Capital. New York: Columbia University Press.
4. Ben Porath, Y. (1967). “The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings,” Journal of Political Economy75(4): 352-365.
5. Browning, M., L. Hansen and J. Heckman (1999). “Micro Data and General Equilibrium Models,” in J. Taylor and M. Woodford (eds.), Handbook of Macroeconomics. Amsterdam: North-Holland Press.
6. Eissa, N. and J. Liebman (1996). “Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit,” Quarterly Journal of Economics111(2): 605-637.
7. Heckman, J. (1971). “Three Essays on Household Labor Supply and the Demand for Market Goods,” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, chapter 1.
8. Heckman, J. (1976). “Life-Cycle Model ofEarnings, Learning, and Consumption,” Journal of Political Economy84(4): S11-S44.
9. Heckman, J. and L. Lochner (2002). “Distinguishing between On-the-Job Training and Learning-by-Doing Models of Skill Formation,” Working Paper, University of Rochester.
10. Heckman, J., L. Lochner and R. Cossa (1999). “Wage Subsidies and Skill Formation: A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit,” Working Paper.
11. Heckman, J., L. Lochner and C. Taber (1998). “Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents,” Review of Economic Dynamics1(1).
12. Heckman, J., L. Lochner, J. Smith and C. Taber (1997). “The Effects of Government Policy on Human Capital Investment and Wage Inequality,” Chicago Policy Review1(2): 1-40.
13. Killingsworth, M. (1982). “Learning by Doing and Investment in Training: A Synthesis of Two Rival Models of the Life Cycle,” Review of Economic Studies 49(2): 263-272.
14. Lochner, L. (1998). “A Life-Cycle Model of Human Capital and Crime: Estimating Deterrent Effects of Wage and Education Subsidies,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago.
15. Mincer, J. (1974). Schooling, Experience and Earnings. New York: Columbia University Press.
16. Phelps, N. (1997). Rewarding Work. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
17. Robins, P. and R. West (1980a). “Program Participation and Labor-Supply Response,” Journal of Human Resources15(4): 499-523.
18. Robins, P. and R. West (1980b). “Labor-Supply Response over Time,” Journal of Human Resources 15(4): 499-523.
19. Rosen, S. (1972). “Learning and Experience in the Labor Market,” Journal of Human Resources7(3): 326-342.
20. Shaw, K. (1989). “Lifecycle Labor Supply with Human Capital Accumulation,” International Economic Review30: 431-456.
21. Weiss, Y. (1972). “On the Optimal Lifetime Pattern of Labour Supply,” Economic Journal82(328): 1293-1315.