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Title: Skills over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the United States and the Philippines
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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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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. |