Occupational Skill Premia around the World. New Data, Patterns and Drivers.

Autor/inn/en	Kunst, David; Freeman, Richard B.; Oostendorp, Remco
Titel	Occupational Skill Premia around the World. New Data, Patterns and Drivers. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufliche Bildungserträge weltweit.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2022) 79, 40 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102255
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Einkommensunterschied; Entwicklungsland; Industriestaat; Schwellenland; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Beruf; Berufsgruppe; Internationaler Vergleich; Entwicklung; Ursache; Welt; Gewerkschaft; Institution
Abstract	"Firms hire workers to undertake tasks and activities associated with particular occupations, which makes occupations a fundamental unit in economic analyses of the labor market. Using a unique dataset on pay in identically defined occupations in developing and advanced countries, we find that in most countries occupational skill premia narrowed substantially from the 1950s to the 1980s, then widened through the 2000s, creating a U-shaped pattern of change. The narrowing was due in part to the huge worldwide increase in the supply of educated workers. The subsequent widening was due in part to the weakening of trade unions and a shift in demand to more skilled workers associated with rising trade. The data indicate that supply, demand, and institutional forces are all drivers of occupational skill premia, ruling out simple single factor explanations of change. The paper concludes with a call for improving the collection of occupational wage data to understand future changes in the world of work." The study refers to the period 1953-2010. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1