The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth

47 Pages Posted: 12 Jan 2013 Last revised: 29 Jan 2023

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Chang-Tai Hsieh

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Erik Hurst

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Charles I. Jones

Stanford Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Peter J. Klenow

Stanford University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: January 2013

Abstract

Over the last 50 years, there has been a remarkable convergence in the occupational distribution between white men, women, and blacks. We measure the macroeconomic consequences of this convergence through the prism of a Roy model of occupational choice in which women and blacks face frictions in the labor market and in the accumulation of human capital. The changing frictions implied by the observed occupational convergence account for 15 to 20 percent of growth in aggregate output per worker since 1960.

Suggested Citation

Hsieh, Chang-Tai and Hurst, Erik and Jones, Charles I. and Klenow, Peter J., The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth (January 2013). NBER Working Paper No. w18693, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2199769

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