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  • Chapter 6 - Creativity

  • Stephen Vassallo, American University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    Neoliberal Selfhood
    Published online:
    03 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 106-126

  • Summary

    Taking up the aim to foster creativity in school appeals to researchers and theorists from a variety of academic and ideological camps. Although several conceptual, methodological, and pedagogical complexities persist, creativity is targeted for instrumental purposes. Creativity is conceptualized as a skill that needs to be developed and harnessed so that persons can maximize their value for modern contexts. The drive for institutionalizing creativity is largely from global competition, technological innovation, entrepreneurialism, community vitality, and worker competence. The so-called creative fields are associated with economic development and growth, and students must learn to participate in those fields in order to support that growth. The economic benefit of a creative workforce invites the integration of practices to calibrate, measure, and cultivate creativity.

  • The Effects of Workforce Creativity on Earnings in U.S. Counties

  • Todd M. Gabe, Kristen Colby, Kathleen P. Bell
  • Journal:
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review / Volume 36 / Issue 1 / April 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 September 2016, pp. 71-83

  • This paper examines the effects of local workforce creativity on county-level earnings. Descriptive analysis of the data shows that most of the high-creativity counties in the United States are part of metropolitan areas, and that employee earnings are high in these places. Regression results indicate that, other things being equal, workforce creativity enhances county-level labor earnings. However, the returns to creativity that we found can be confirmed only in the urban context. An extension of the analysis suggests that the creative workforce wage premium may be capturing the effects of “technical workforce creativity” on earnings.