Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?

Autor/inn/en	Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias
Titel	Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Zwischenmenschliche, kognitive und manuelle Fähigkeiten: Wie wirken sie sich auf Beschäftigung und Löhne aus?.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2022) 78, Art. 102235, 16 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102235
Schlagwörter	Fertigkeit; Kognitive Kompetenz; Bildungsertrag; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Produktivitätseffekt; Ausbildung; Arbeitslosigkeit; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Auswirkung; Dequalifizierung; Manuelle Arbeit; Absolvent; Schweiz
Abstract	"We study how interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills affect employment and wages in a search and matching model through their impact on productivity, complementarity, job destruction, and the cost of unemployment. Combining several data sets on workers who acquired skills in vocational education and training (VET), we quantify each channel, allowing for unobserved heterogeneity in ability. All three skills increase productivity, yet they affect job destruction rates differentially. While manual skills are associated with lower job destruction, interpersonal and cognitive skills have the opposite effect. Focusing on low-ability workers, we then estimate the value of VET. Through VET, wages increase up to 10% and unemployment drops by over 50%. Low-ability workers thus have particularly large benefits from acquiring manual skills because they increase wages and shield from unemployment." The study refers to the period 2004-2009. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1