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Title: No longer qualified? Changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2020

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DOI: 10.29412/res.wp.2020.03

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Abstract: Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling-in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills-was a persistent trend among high-skill occupations, but either a temporary or non-existent phenomenon among middle-skill and low-skill occupations. We also find evidence that persistent upskilling in the high-skill sector contributed to greater occupational mismatch that remained elevated during the recovery from the Great Recession. In contrast, labor market mismatch had largely dissipated within the low-skill and middle-skill sectors by 2017.

Url: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/227938/1/1700163493.pdf

Url: https://doi.org/10.29412/res.wp.2020.03

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Authors: Burke, Mary A; Sasser Modestino, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; Sederberg, Rachel B; Taska, Bledi

Series Title: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Department Working Papers

Publication Number: 20-3

Institution: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Pages: 1-70

Publisher Location: Boston, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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