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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w28991 |
来源ID | Working Paper 28991 |
Skills, Degrees and Labor Market Inequality | |
Peter Q. Blair; Papia Debroy; Justin Heck | |
发表日期 | 2021-07-05 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Over the past four decades, income inequality grew significantly between workers with bachelor’s degrees and those with high school diplomas (often called “unskilled”). Rather than being unskilled, we argue that these workers are STARs because they are skilled through alternative routes—namely their work experience. Using the skill requirements of a worker’s current job as a proxy of their actual skill, we find that though both groups of workers make transitions to occupations requiring similar skills to their previous occupations, workers with bachelor’s degrees have dramatically better access to higher-wage occupations where the skill requirements exceed the workers’ observed skill. This measured opportunity gap offers a fresh explanation of income inequality by degree status and reestablishes the important role of on-the-job training in human capital formation. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28991 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586665 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Peter Q. Blair,Papia Debroy,Justin Heck. Skills, Degrees and Labor Market Inequality. 2021. |
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