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Learning the right skill: the returns to social, technical, and basic skills for middle-educated graduates

Piracha, Matloob and Cnossen, Femke and Tchuente, Guy (2021) Learning the right skill: the returns to social, technical, and basic skills for middle-educated graduates. Technical report. GLO (Submitted) (KAR id:98819)

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Abstract

Technological change and globalization have sparked debates on the changing demand for skills in western labour markets, especially for middle skilled workers who have seen their tasks replaced. This paper provides a new data set, which is based on text data from curricula of the entire Dutch vocational education system. We extract verbs and nouns to measure social, technical and basic skills in a novel way. This method allows us to uncover the skills middle-skilled students learn in school. Using this data, we show that skill returns vary across students specialized in STEM, economics or health, as well as across sectors of employment.

Item Type: Monograph (Technical report)
Subjects: H Social Sciences
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: Guy Tchuente Nguembu
Date Deposited: 06 Dec 2022 22:39 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 10:34 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/98819 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Piracha, Matloob: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0885-349X
Tchuente, Guy: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8507-3337
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