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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Occupational Specificity: A new Measurement Based on Training Curricula and its Effect on Labor Market Outcomes
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Authors
  • Christian Eggenberger
  • Miriam Rinawi
  • Uschi Backes-Gellner
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Swiss Leading House "Economics of Education" Working Paper
Number 106
Date 2015
Abstract Text This paper proposes a new measurement for the specificity of occupations based on a content analysis of training curricula that we link to labor market demands. We apply Lazear’s (2009) skill weights approach and test predictions on labor market outcomes derived from his theory. We find clear evidence of a trade-off between earning higher returns with more specific training and higher occupational mobility with less specific training. Our measure improves the micro-foundation of human capital specificity and provides an evidence-based approach to evaluate the specificity of training curricula.
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