It is optimal to continue specializing in the same skill selected in period 1, and so if ( {widehat{x}}_j^1>0 ), then ( {x}_j^2>0 ) for continuing laborers.
The best forecast a laborer can make of his next draw on entrepreneurial skill in period 2 will be E λ2) = λ1 < 2, and so he will expect to be a laborer in period 2 as well, continuing to invest in the same skill in period 2 that he specialized in during period 1.
Following an early-evening dinner, grizzled old commanders instruct the boys in many of the same skills that were taught back when the academy was first set up: knot-tying, semaphore, compass use.
If you learn to conduct a successful networking campaign early in your career, the same skills will serve you well when it comes time to conduct a job search.
On the cost side, there's no contest: Chinese chip-designer wages are a third to a half what employers pay in Taiwan for the same skills, and a seventh to a tenth of what employers would pay in the U.S. for the same work.
All classes in school teach the same skills?
In particular, I find that programming skills acquired in the Singapore software industry are valued by employers in Myanmar, in particular foreign employers, while the same skills acquired in Malaysia have no discernible impact.
As demonstrated by Skinner (2014), psychomotor and cognitive/perceptual skill relevant to laparoscopic surgery are acquired and decay at differential rates when performed in isolation as compared to performance of the same skills in an integrated manner.
In this paper, I present results from a resume audit study conducted in Yangon, Myanmar, that seeks to examine two questions: (1) how much demand exists for return Burmese migrants who accumulated computer programming, engineering, and accounting skills in Singapore and Malaysia, relative to similar workers who accumulated the same skills in the Myanmar labor market?
Enlisted service members and officers train side by side in the same classes, learning the same skills.
