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Title: Measuring Skill Intensity of Occupations with Imperfect Substitutability Across Skill Types
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2010
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Abstract: In absence of a model-based measure of occupational skill-intensity, the literature on wage inequality cannot consistently track technological progress on occupational level - a key ingredient of recent theories of labor market polarization. In this paper, I use the March CPS data from 1983 to 2002 to estimate such a measure corresponding to occupation-specific relative productivities of college and high-school educated. With imperfect substitution across skill types, the measurement of relative productivities requires estimation of substitution elasticities, and I propose a simple strategy to obtain these. The resulting measure is used to shed light on the modified skill-biased technological change hypothesis proposed by Autor et al. (2006).
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Authors: Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara
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Publication Number: 421
Institution: CERGE-EI
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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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