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Type	Journal Article
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Occupational specificity: a new measurement based on training curricula and its effect on labor market outcomes
Organization Unit	Empirical Research in Business, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (Uschi Backes-Gellner)
Authors	Christian Eggenberger Miriam Rinawi Uschi Backes-Gellner
Item Subtype	Original Work
Refereed	No
Status	Published in final form
Language	English
Journal Title	Labour Economics
Publisher	Elsevier
Geographical Reach	international
ISSN	0927-5371
Volume	51
Page Range	97 - 107
Date	2018
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.
Related URLs	https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/152804/
Digital Object Identifier	10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.010
Other Identification Number	merlin-id:16252
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