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
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 281
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Empirical Studies of Trade
- Subject
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Trade shocks
occupational choice
vocational education
occupational skill specificity
local labor markets
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Simon, Lisa
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Simon, Lisa
- ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Time of origin
- 2018
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