ELEMENTS OF SKILL: TRAITS, INTELLIGENCES, EDUCATION, AND AGGLOMERATION
借鉴心理学学习方法,探讨教育与集聚在技能发展中的作用,利用享乐归因法衡量技能,分析工人特质、智力和技能的地理分布。
ABSTRACT 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 roles of urbanization and education in the skill development process.