Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession

Peter Q. Blair, David J. Deming

In this paper we use detailed job vacancy data to estimate changes in skill demand in the years since the Great Recession. The share of job vacancies requiring a bachelor's degree increased by more than 60 percent between 2007 and 2019, with faster growth in professional occupations and high-wage cities. Since the labor market was becoming tighter over this period, cyclical "upskilling" is unlikely to explain our findings

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Year of publication:	January 2020
Authors:	Blair, Peter Q.
Other Persons:	Deming, David J. (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	2020: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Wirtschaftskrise \| Economic crisis \| Anforderungsprofil \| Occupational profile \| Offene Stellen \| Job vacancies \| Studium \| University education

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w26680
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w26680 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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