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Contributions published at Empirical Research in Business, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (Uschi Backes-Gellner)

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Chiara Zisler, Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Opening doors for immigrants: The role of occupational skills and workplace-based cultural skills for a successful labor market entry, In: Swiss VET Conference. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Dietmar Harhoff, Patrick Lehnert, Curdin Pfister, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Innovation effects and knowledge complementarities in a diverse research landscape, In: Swiss VET Conference. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Patricia Pálffy, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Social norms and gendered occupational choices of men and women: Time to turn the tide?, Industrial Relations, Vol. 62 (4), 2023. (Journal Article) We analyze the relationship between social gender norms and adolescents' occupational choices by combining regional votes on constitutional amendments on gender equality with job application data from a large job board for apprenticeships. The results show that adolescent males in regions with stronger traditional social gender norms are more likely to apply for typically male occupations. This finding does not hold for females, suggesting that incentivizing men to break the norms and choose gender-atypical occupations (e.g., in healthcare) can be even more effective in accelerating advancement toward gender equality in the labor market than incentivizing women to choose STEM occupations.
Dietmar Harhoff, Patrick Lehnert, Curdin Pfister, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Innovation effects and knowledge complementarities in a diverse research landscape, In: International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Silvio Meier, Financial Literacy, Education and Career Aspirations: an internationals comparison with survey data, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2023. (Master's Thesis) null
Tobias Schlegel, Uschi Backes-Gellner, The role of fields of study for the effects of higher education institutions on regional firm location, Small Business Economics, 2023. (Journal Article) The literature on knowledge spillovers provides evidence that higher education institutions (HEIs) positively affect regional firm location (i.e., start-ups or firms located in a region). However, less is known about how HEIs in different fields of study impact regional firm location in different industries. To investigate this question, we exploit the establishment of universities of applied sciences (UASs)—bachelor’s degree-granting three-year HEIs in Switzerland. We find that the effects of UASs are heterogeneous across fields of study and industries. UASs specializing in “chemistry and the life sciences” and “business, management, and services” are the only UASs that positively affect regional firm location across several industries. Positive effects emerge in service industries characterized by radical service, incremental product, or process innovations. Thus, UASs are not a one-size-fits-all solution for increasing regional firm location. Instead, only UASs specializing in particular fields of study positively influence firm location in certain industries.
Simona Fust, Geschlechtstypische Berufswahlentscheidungen: Eine empirische Analyse von Interventionsmöglichkeiten für die Schweiz, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2023. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Pascal Kägi, On the relation of social norms and green jobs: An empirical analysis for Switzerland, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2023. (Bachelor's Thesis) null
Eric Bettinger, Madison Dell, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner, The effect of postsecondary institutions on local economies: a bird's-eye view, In: SASE Annual Conference. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Andreas Bühler, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Curriculum Updates in Vocational Education and Changes in Skills and Wages, In: SASE Annual Conference 2023. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Patricia Pálffy, Luc Sandfort, Martin Schneider, Uschi Backes-Gellner, How to avoid losing young talents in early career stages? Resource configurations that enable a smooth labor market entry, In: SASE Annual Conference 2023. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Patricia Pálffy, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner, One size does not fit all: A large-scale field experiment on countering gender-typicality in occupational choices of women and men, In: SASE Annual Conference 2023. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Chiara Zisler, Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Opening doors for immigrants: The role of occupational skills and workplace-based cultural skills for a successful labor market entry, In: SASE Annual Conference. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Tobias Schultheiss, How is Firms’ Competitiveness and Workers’ Adaptability in a Technology-Driven Economy Affected by Educational Innovations? An Econometric Analysis., University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2023. (Dissertation) null
Fabienne Kiener, Skill Bundles and Labour Market Outcomes: Identifying Different Types of Skills in Curriculum Texts by Applying Natural Language Processing, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2023. (Dissertation) null
Tobias Schultheiss, Uschi Backes‐Gellner, Different degrees of skill obsolescence across hard and soft skills and the role of lifelong learning for labor market outcomes, Industrial Relations, Vol. 62 (3), 2023. (Journal Article) 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.
Andreas Bühler, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Curriculum Updates in Vocational Education and Changes in Skills and Wages, In: XXXI Meeting of the Economics of Education Association (AEDE). 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Patricia Pálffy, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner, One size does not fit all: A large-scale field experiment on countering gender-typicality in occupational choices of women and men, In: XXXI Meeting of the Economics of Education Association (AEDE). 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Chiara Zisler, Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Opening doors for immigrants: The role of occupational skills and workplace-based cultural skills for a successful labor market entry, In: XXXI Meeting of the Economics of Education Association (AEDE). 2023. (Conference Presentation) null
Eric Bettinger, Madison Dell, Patrick Lehnert, Uschi Backes-Gellner, The effect of postsecondary institutions on local economies: a bird's-eye view, In: DRUID Conference. 2023. (Conference Presentation) null

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