the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) shared across occupations. Although these two approaches produce very …This paper compares two estimation methods of occupational skills transferability, both theoretically and empirically … difference between these two methods is that Shaw’s skills transferability is a “market” approach. It is estimated based on an …

. We test two explanations, namely, formal overqualification and a mismatch of occupational skills. By using the National … mismatch of skills between the current and training occupation. Further analyses show that mismatches of occupational skills … mismatch are unrelated. We conclude that because of occupational boundaries and more specific occupational skills, the people …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

-offer distribution from the effect of the time since the last lay-off on wages. This methodology is applied to the NLSY 79. We find …