Time-varying occupational contents: An additional link between occupational task profiles and individual wages

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By analyzing occupational task profiles, an occupational change can be split up into two components: (1) transferability of task portfolios between occupations and (2) change in the value of the occupation-employee match. Extending the task-based approach of Gathmann and Schönberg (2009) by relaxing their assumption of time-invariant occupational contents, I estimate the association of dynamic aspects of occupational task portfolios with individual wages for medium-skilled German workers in 1991 and 1998. Estimated wage returns to the components of an occupational change generally differ in short and long run, as well as in East and West Germany. Wage returns to the changes of task porfolios for the occupational stayers are estimated to be positive.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: SFB 649 Discussion Paper ; No. 2011-074

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Analysis of Education ; Technological Change: Other
• Subject: human capital ; wage premium ; occupational change ; task-based approach ; Lohnstruktur ; Qualifikation ; Beruf ; Anforderungsprofil ; Schätzung ; Deutschland ; Neue Bundesländer

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fedorets, Alexandra
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56635