Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/176902 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6883
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector to the economy, which we proxy with the relative value added of finance. More innovative sectors and sectors exhibiting lower labor-transition costs face a higher reallocation of skilled workers. Yet, the growing finance wage premium is unrelated to sectoral or aggregate growth, to countries’ innovative capacity, to student enrollment in STEM degrees, and to the riskiness, efficiency, and competitiveness of banking sectors. Overall, the reallocation of skilled labor implied by a growing finance wage premium appears too modest to materially affect economic growth.
Subjects: 
finance wage premium
skilled labor
misallocation
growth
innovation
banking sector.
JEL: 
D72
G20
J23
J31
N20
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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