In this paper, we study the role of occupational skills in individuals’ labor market transitions. Using rich data on … skills required in occupations, we introduce a concept of occupation-specific human capital and develop empirical measures … specificity and individuals’ mobility patterns and wages. In particular, after layoffs, individuals with more occupation …

wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative … productivity of skilled job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a … negative selection from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changers …

mobility on post-training wages in Switzerland to assess the transferability of the human capital acquired in training. We show … apprentices’ level of ability. Accounting for the endogeneity of mobility tends to increase the estimated wage differential …

speci…cally controlling for schooling cognitive skills (i.e. the capacity to process information and apply knowledge) and … not cognitive skills as a whole, a considerable share of the return to schooling is constituted of cognitive skills. This … contrasts with previous research that strongly favored noncognitive skills (i.e. behavioral and personality traits) as the key …

incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union’s …