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Title: Elements of Skill: Traits, Intelligences, and Agglomeration
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Bacolod, Marigee Ponla Blum, Bernardo S. Strange, William C. |
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Elements of Skill: Traits, Intelligences, and Agglomeration Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, April 2009. Also: http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/conference/2009/jrs/Strange.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Pearlin Mastery Scale; Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) (see Self-Esteem); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control); Self-Esteem; Skilled Workers; Skills Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. There are many fundamental issues in regional and urban economics that hinge on worker skills. This paper builds on psychological approaches to learning to characterize the role of education and agglomeration in the skill development process. While the standard approach of equating skill to worker education can be useful, there are important aspects of skill that are missed. Using a measure of skill derived from hedonic attribution, the paper explores the geographic distribution of worker traits, intelligences, and skills and considers the role of urbanization and education in the skill development process. |
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Bacolod, Marigee Ponla, Bernardo S. Blum and William C. Strange. "Elements of Skill: Traits, Intelligences, and Agglomeration." Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, April 2009. |