Measuring skill intensity of occupations with imperfect substitutability across skill types

0355469 - NHÚ 2011 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara
Measuring skill intensity of occupations with imperfect substitutability across skill types.
CERGE-EI Working Paper Series. -, č. 421 (2010), s. 1-33. ISSN 1211-3298
R&D Projects: GA MPS HC195/10; GA MŠMT LC542
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70850503
Keywords : occupations * skill-intensity * elasticity of labor substitution * technological progress
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp421.pdf

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.
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