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Skills, Tasks and Technologies : Implications for Employment and Earnings
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
A central organizing framework of the voluminous recent literature studying changes in the returns to skills and the evolution of earnings inequality is what we refer to as the canonical model, which elegantly and powerfully operationalizes the supply and demand for skills by assuming two...
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Putting Tasks to the Test : Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages
Autor, David H. - 2009
Employing original, representative survey data, we document that cognitive, interpersonal and physical job task demands can be measured with high validity using standard interview techniques. Job tasks vary substantially within and between occupations, are significantly related to workers'...
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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Burstein, Ariel - 2015
We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...
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Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets : Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals
Deming, David - 2017
We study variation in skill demands for professionals across firms and labor markets. We categorize a wide range of keywords found in job ads into ten general skills. There is substantial variation in these skill requirements, even within narrowly defined occupations. Focusing particularly on...
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Labor Market Implications of Education MisMatch
Cervantes, Carla Varona - 2020
This project studies the impact of education mismatch on labor outcomes. Across our sample of OECD countries, there is evidence of mismatch in education choices and labor markets. Labor market outcomes are not independent of education mismatch. Our framework for analysis is a dynamic choice...
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Task Mismatch and Salary Penalties : Evidence from the Biomedical PhD Labor Market
Diethorn, Holden A.; Marschke, Gerald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use the labor market for doctorates in the biomedical sciences, where career dislocation is common, as a case study of skill-task mismatch and its consequences. Using longitudinal, worker-level data on biomedical doctorates, we investigate mismatch as an explanation for the negative pecuniary...
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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Skill Gaps, Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatches : Evidence for the US
Cappelli, Peter - 2014
Concerns that there are problems with the supply of skills, especially education-related skills, in the US labor force have exploded in recent years with a series of reports from employer-associated organizations but also from independent and even government sources making similar claims. These...
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The Option Value of Human Capital : Higher Education and Wage Inequality
Lee, Sang Yoon - 2015
.e., underemployment). These options reduce the chances of falling in the lower end of the wage distribution as a college graduate …
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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium : Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?
Valletta, Robert G. - 2016
Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...
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