TY - BOOK ID - 137021766 TI - Human Capital Accumulation at Work : Estimates for the World and Implications for Development AU - Jedwab, Remi. AU - Islam, Asif. AU - Romer, Paul. AU - Samaniego, Roberto. PY - 2021 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Development Accounting KW - Economic Development KW - Economics of Education KW - Education KW - Educational Sciences KW - Employment and Unemployment KW - Human Capital KW - Labor Market KW - Returns To Education KW - Returns To Experience KW - Social Protections and Labor UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137021766 AB - In this paper, the authors: (i) study wage-experience profiles and obtain measures of returns to potential work experience using data from about 24 million individuals in 1,084 household surveys and census samples across 145 countries; (ii) show that returns to work experience are strongly correlated with economic development-workers in developed countries appear to accumulate twice more human capital at work than workers in developing countries; (iii) use a simple accounting framework to find that the contribution of work experience to human capital accumulation and economic development might be as important as the contribution of education itself; and (iv) employ panel regressions to investigate how changes in the returns over time correlate with several factors such as economic recessions, transitions, and human capital stocks. ER -