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College degree supply and occupational allocation of graduates - the case of the Czech Republic

SYSNO ASEP	0342778
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	College degree supply and occupational allocation of graduates - the case of the Czech Republic
Author(s)	Gebicka, Barbara (NHU-C)
Source Title	CERGE-EI Working Paper Series - ISSN 1211-3298 Roč. 20, č. 1 (2010), s. 41-87
Number of pages	47 s.
Publication form	www - www
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	occupational allocation ; demand for skills ; productivity spillovers
Subject RIV	AH - Economics
R&D Projects	LC542 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
CEZ	MSM0021620846 - NHU-C
Annotation	Public funding drives much of the recent growth of college degree supply in Europe, but few indicators are available to assess its optimal level. In this paper, I investigate an indicator of college skills usage - the fraction of college graduates employed in “college” occupations. Gottschalk and Hansen (2003) propose to identify “college” occupations based on within-occupation college wage premia; I build on their strategy to study the local-labor-market relationship between the share of college graduates in the population and the use of college skills. Empirical results based on worker-level data from Czech NUTS-4 districts suggest a positive relationship, thus supporting the presence of an endogenous influence of the number of skilled workers on the demand for them.
Workplace	Economics Institute - CERGE
Contact	Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122
Year of Publishing	2011

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