Employer learning and the "importance" of skills.

Autor/inn/en	Light, Audrey; McGee, Andrew
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Employer learning and the "importance" of skills. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Das Employer learning und die Gewichtung einzelner Qualifikationen.
Quelle	Bonn (2012), 36 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 6623
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Lernen; Lohnentwicklung; Personalauswahl; Personalbeurteilung; Arbeitsproduktivität; Lohnfindung; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsmerkmal; Qualifikationsniveau; Arbeitgeber; USA
Abstract	We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to productivity. Combining data from the NLSY79 with ONET data, we use Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores to measure seven distinct types of pre-market skills that employers cannot readily observe, and ONET importance scores to measure the importance of each skill for the worker's current three-digit occupation. Before bringing importance measures into the analysis, we find evidence of employer learning for each skill type, for college and high school graduates, and for blue and white collar workers. Moreover, we find that the extent of employer learning - which we demonstrate to be directly identified by magnitudes of parameter estimates after simple manipulation of the data - does not vary significantly across skill type or worker type. Once we allow parameters identifying employer learning and screening to vary by skill importance, we find evidence of distinct tradeoffs between learning and screening, and considerable heterogeneity across skill type and skill importance. For some skills, increased importance leads to more screening and less learning; for others, the opposite is true. Our evidence points to heterogeneity in the degree of employer learning that is masked by disaggregation based on schooling attainment or broad occupational categories. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2016/2