% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{LaborHubJ2, title = "The Micro and Macro Implications of Multidimensional Skill Uncertainty", author = "De Dominicis, Piero", institution = "Cornell University ILR School", type = "Discussion Paper", series = "Labor Hub Discussion Paper Series", number = "J2", year = "2026", month = "October", URL = "https://laborhub.ilr.cornell.edu/publications/11/", abstract = {What are the consequences of multidimensional skill uncertainty for workers’ wages and aggregate output? I develop and estimate a general equilibrium dynamic Roy model in which workers have imperfect information about their multidimensional skills and accumulate task-specific human capital. Estimated on Portuguese administrative data, the model rationalizes key patterns of occupational mobility, with learning about comparative advantage playing a central role in occupational reallocation among young and poorly matched workers. Removing information frictions raises aggregate output by 5.1%, primarily through better skill allocation across occupations, while generating the largest wage gains early in workers’ careers and among the most mismatched. A feasible information treatment about comparative advantage across tasks recovers about 19% of this output loss. Finally, job transformation induced by Large Language Model adoption raises output while widening the output gap between the imperfect- and perfect-information economies along the transition path and in the new long run.}, }