Arbeitspapier

Shocking Choice: Trade Shocks, Local Labor Markets and Vocational Occupation Choices

Whether individuals choose occupations that teach general or specific skills can have important implications on how protected they are from changing conditions on the labor market. This paper looks at the impact of growing up in a region exposed to structural change caused by import competition on vocational occupation choices using longitudinal social security data for Germany. Results show that individuals enter more skill-specific occupations like manufacturing and less general occupations like services if exposed to higher local import competition. Lifetime earnings are adversely affected, which can be attributed to vocational occupation choices.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 281

Classification
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Empirical Studies of Trade
Subject
Trade shocks
occupational choice
vocational education
occupational skill specificity
local labor markets

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Simon, Lisa
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(where)
Munich
(when)
2018

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Simon, Lisa
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Time of origin

  • 2018

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