SKILLS, EDUCATION, AND CANADIAN PROVINCIAL DISPARITY*
利用2003年ALL调查数据，构建1951-2001年加拿大10省劳动力市场新进入者的技能时间序列，发现技能对地区收入影响显著，多一年教育带来的技能提升使人均收入增加约5%，接近微观明瑟估计值。
ABSTRACT We derive synthetic time series over the 1951–2001 period of the skills of labor market entrants for the 10 Canadian provinces from the 2003 ALL survey. The effect of the skills variable on regional income is significant and substantial. Skills acquired by one extra year of schooling result in an increase in per capita income of around 5 percent, which is close to microeconomic Mincerian estimates. Our literacy indicator does not outperform human capital indicators based on education. This contrasts sharply with recent cross‐country evidence and suggests substantial measurement error in cross‐country schooling data.