Education expansion and high-skill job opportunities for workers: Does a rising tide lift all boats?

Autor/inn/en	Schultheiß, Tobias; Pfister, Curdin; Gnehm, Ann-Sophie; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
Titel	Education expansion and high-skill job opportunities for workers: Does a rising tide lift all boats? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ausbau des Bildungswesens und hochqualifizierte Arbeitsplätze für Arbeitnehmer: Hebt eine steigende Flut alle Boote?.
Quelle	In: Labour economics, (2023) 82, 23 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0927-5371
DOI	10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102354
Schlagwörter	Bildungsexpansion; Verdrängung; Fachhochschule; Schweiz; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Verdrängung; Auswirkung; Qualifikation; Bildungsexpansion; Qualifikationsanforderung; Höherqualifikation; Arbeitsmarktchance; Höherqualifikation; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsanforderung; Tätigkeitsmerkmal; Naturwissenschaftlicher Beruf; Jobbörse; Fachhochschule; Bachelor-Studiengang; Hochschulsystem; Auswirkung; Durchschnitt; Stellenbeschreibung; Hochschulabsolvent; Schweiz
Abstract	"We examine how education expansions affect the job opportunities for workers with and without the new education. To identify causal effects, we exploit a quasi-random establishment of Universities of Applied Sciences (UASs), bachelor-granting three-year colleges that teach and conduct applied research. By applying machine-learning methods to job advertisement data, we analyze job content before and after the education expansion. We find that, in regions with the newly established UASs, not only job descriptions of the new UAS graduates but also job descriptions of workers without this degree (i.e., middle-skilled workers with vocational training) contain more high-skill job content. This upskilling in job content is driven by an increase in high-skill R&D-related tasks and linked to employment and wage gains. The task spillovers likely occur because UAS graduates with applied research skills build a bridge between middle-skilled workers and traditional university graduates, facilitating the integration of the former into R&D-related tasks." The study refers to the period 1995-2015. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2023/1