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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990. NBER Working Paper No. 17683
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni
National Bureau of Economic Research
We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try and understand this finding theoretically, we consider a free trade model with two goods/industries, two skill types, and many regions that produce a fixed range of differentiated varieties of the same goods. We find that a calibrated version of the model can account for shifts in schooling supply being mostly absorbed through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production even if the elasticity of substitution between varieties is substantially higher than estimates in the literature.
Descriptors: Evidence, Industry, Labor Legislation, Child Labor, Education Work Relationship, Compulsory Education, Free Enterprise System
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