American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Learning-by-Doing as a Propagation Mechanism
American Economic Review
vol. 92,
no. 5, December 2002
(pp. 1498–1520)
Abstract
This paper suggests that skill accumulation through past work experience, or "learning-by-doing" (LBD), can provide an important propagation mechanism in a dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model, as the current labor supply affects future productivity. Our econometric analysis uses a Bayesian approach to combine micro-level panel data with aggregate time series. Formal model evaluation shows that the introduction of the LBD mechanism improves the model's ability to fit the dynamics of aggregate output and hours.Citation
Chang, Yongsung, Joao F. Gomes, and Frank Schorfheide. 2002. "Learning-by-Doing as a Propagation Mechanism ." American Economic Review, 92 (5): 1498–1520. DOI: 10.1257/000282802762024601JEL Classification
- E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief
- J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply