| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29921 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29921 |
| Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19 | |
| Ina Ganguli; Jamal I. Haidar; Asim Ijaz Khwaja; Samuel W. Stemper; Basit Zafar | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-04-11 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study how large shocks impact individuals’ skilling decisions using data from the largest online learning platform in Saudi Arabia. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive increase in online skilling, and demand shifted towards courses that offered skills, such as telework, likely to be immediately valuable during the pandemic. Consistent with a model where individuals trade off reskilling costs with their expectations of future labor market conditions and their duration of work, we find that shifts into telework courses were largest for older workers. In contrast, younger workers increased enrollments in courses related to new skills, such as general, occupation-specific, and computer-related skills. Using national administrative employment data, we provide suggestive evidence that these investments in skills in early 2020 helped users maintain employment over the course of the pandemic. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand ; COVID-19 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29921 |
| 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/587594 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ina Ganguli,Jamal I. Haidar,Asim Ijaz Khwaja,et al. Economic Shocks and Skill Acquisition: Evidence from a National Online Learning Platform at the Onset of COVID-19. 2022. |
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| w29921.pdf（712KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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