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Title: SKILL-BIASED OCCUPATION GROWTH

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: This paper documents that employment and wage growth of occupations in- crease monotonically with measures of skill intensity since 1980 in the US. Skill-biased occupation growth is not driven by a specific time period, gender, age group, or occupation classification. The simultaneous occurrence of skill- biased occupation growth and polarization along wages is a result of the weak connection between wage and skill structure among the low-wage jobs. Trends in occupational change can be reconciled in an extension of the canonical skill-biased technical change model which incorporates skill type heterogene- ity within occupations and occupation-specific disutility from work. Estimation of the model’s college premium equation suggests a stable long-run growth for the relative skill demand.

Url: http://conference.iza.org/conference_files/WoLabConf_2018/sevinc_o26309.pdf

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Authors: SEVINC, ORHUN

Publisher: Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States