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Chaparro, Juan |
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Occupational Choice and Returns to Skills in the United States: Evidence from the NLSY79 and O*NET Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015. Also presented at the Midwest Economics Association annual meeting, March 2015. Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Job Requirements; Occupational Choice; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Skills; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Occupational choices carry substantial information about a worker's human capital. They are informative about a worker's education, experience and skills. Workers, however, self-select into occupations. Therefore, occupational indicators are endogenous variables in any wage equation. This paper defines an occupation as a vector in a space of skill requirements, and proposes an instrumental variables approach to deal with endogeneity. I combine data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79), with data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a publicly available database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. By doing so, I instrument the math requirements of a worker's occupation in 2010 with the math requirements of the worker's preferred occupation back in 1979. A similar instrument is used for language requirements. Such procedure allows me to measure the wage return to math and language skills for individuals represented by the NLSY79 sample. |
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Chaparro, Juan. "Occupational Choice and Returns to Skills in the United States: Evidence from the NLSY79 and O*NET." Presented: San Diego CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April-May 2015. Also presented at the Midwest Economics Association annual meeting, March 2015.. |
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Chaparro, Juan |
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Skills over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the United States and the Philippines Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Life Cycle Research; Occupational Choice; Occupational Information Network (O*NET); Skills; Wage Dynamics Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Chapter 2 explores the skill content of occupational choices in the United States. The goal of the chapter is to measure the wage return to math and language skills, taking into account the self-selection process of occupational choice. Occupations must be treated as endogenous variables in any wage equation. I instrument the importance of math for a worker's occupation in her thirties and forties with the importance of math for the worker's preferred occupation back in her early twenties. A similar instrumental variable is proposed for language skills. This empirical strategy is possible after the combination of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1979 Cohort (NLSY79) and the Occupational Information Network (O*Net). |
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Bibliography Citation
Chaparro, Juan. Skills over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the United States and the Philippines. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, 2016. |