Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes.

Autor/inn/en	Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
Titel	Different Degrees of Skill Obsolescence across Hard and Soft Skills and the Role of Lifelong Learning for Labor Market Outcomes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Unterschiedliche Grade der Veralterung von Qualifikationen bei Hard und Soft Skills und die Rolle des lebenslangen Lernens für die Arbeitsmarktergebnisse.
Quelle	In: Industrial relations, 62 (2023) 3, S. 257-287 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0019-8676; 1468-232X
DOI	10.1111/irel.12325
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Schweiz; Auswirkung; Weiterbildung; Lebenslanges Lernen; Qualifikationsanforderung; Bildungsbeteiligung; Bildungsertrag; Bildungsertrag; Qualifikationsanforderung; Qualifikationsanpassung; Qualifikationserhalt; Qualifikationsverwertung; Weiterbildung; Weiterbildungsnachfrage; Lebenslanges Lernen; Auswirkung; Dequalifizierung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Stellenbeschreibung; Schweiz
Abstract	"This paper examines the role of lifelong learning in counteracting skill depreciation and obsolescence. We differentiate between occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills and draw on representative job advertisement data that contain machine-learning categorized skill requirements and cover the Swiss job market in great detail across occupations (from 1950 to 2019). We examine lifelong learning effects for "harder" versus "softer" occupations, thereby analyzing the role of training in counteracting skill depreciation in occupations that are differently affected by skill depreciation. Our results reveal novel empirical patterns regarding the benefits of lifelong learning, which are consistent with theoretical explanations based on structurally different skill depreciation rates: In harder occupations, with large shares of fast-depreciating hard skills, the role of lifelong learning is primarily as a hedge against unemployment risks rather than a boost to wages. By contrast, in softer occupations, in which workers build on more value-stable soft-skill foundations, the role of lifelong learning instead lies mostly in acting as a boost for upward career mobility and leads to larger wage gains." The study refers to the period 1950-2019. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1