Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70350 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CIBC Working Paper No. 2012-2
Publisher: 
The University of Western Ontario, CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity, London (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper presents and estimates a unified model where both human capital investment and job search are endogenized. This unification enables us to quantify the relative contributions of each mechanism to life cycle earnings growth, while investigating potential interactions between human capital investment and job search. Within the unified framework, the expectation of rising rental rates of human capital through job search gives workers more incentive to invest in human capital. In addition, unemployed workers reduce their reservation rental rates and increase their search effort to leave unemployment quickly to take advantage of human capital accumulation on the job. The results show both forces are important for earnings growth and the interactions are substantial: human capital accumulation accounts for 31% of total earnings growth, job search accounts for 46%, and the remaining 23% is due to the interactions of the two.
Subjects: 
Human Capital
Job Search
Life Cycle
Earnings Growth
JEL: 
J24
J64
D91
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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