Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? Evidence from an online labour platform.

Autor/inn/en	Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili
Institution	OECD / Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Titel	Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? Evidence from an online labour platform. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Helfen digitale Qualifikationszertifikate neuen Arbeitskräften, auf den Arbeitsmarkt Fuß zu fassen? Erkenntnisse einer online Vermittlungsplattform.
Quelle	Paris (2019), 38 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	OECD social, employment and migration working papers. 225
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1815-199X
DOI	10.1787/3388385e-en
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Einkommenseffekt; Arbeitsmarktchance; Arbeitsuche; Qualifikationsnachweis; Auftragsvergabe; Berufsanfänger; Freier Mitarbeiter; Online-Angebot
Abstract	"This paper studies the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. The paper show that obtaining skill certificates increases a worker's earnings. This effect is not driven by increased worker productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in worker earnings is mostly realised through an increase in the value of the projects obtained (up to 10%) rather than an increase in the number of projects obtained (up to 0.03 projects). In addition, the paper finds evidence for negative selection to completing skill certificates, which suggests that the workers who complete more skill certificates are, on average, in a more disadvantaged position in the labour market. Finally, skill certificates are found to be an imperfect substitute to other types of standardised information. On the whole, the results suggest that certificates play a role in helping new workers break into the labour market, but are more valuable to workers with at least some work experience. More stringent skill certification tests could improve the benefits to new workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/3