Cross‐country disparities in skill premium and skill acquisition
研究发现穷国技能工人溢价更高但技能获取不足，通过职业选择与技能获取匹配模型，量化了创业障碍对失业率、技能溢价和技能获取的影响。
Abstract Skilled individuals are rewarded more in poor than in rich countries. Why aren't more individuals acquiring skills in poor countries? We document that the unemployment rate of the skilled net of that of the unskilled decreases with a country's level of development. Using a matching model of occupational choice and skill acquisition, we quantify the role of barriers to enter entrepreneurship for these unemployment rates, skill premium and acquisition. The cross‐country correlation between skill premium and acquisition decreases by 45% when each country's gap to the US in the entrepreneurship barrier is decreased enough to even the unemployment differential.