Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers.

This article studies the impact of changing job skills on career earnings dynamics for college graduates. We measure changes in the skill content of occupations between 2007 and 2019 using detailed job descriptions from a near universe of online job postings. We then develop a simple model where the...

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Publicado en:Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 135; no. 4; pp. 1965 - 2006
Autores principales: Deming, David J, Noray, Kadeem
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2020
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        Career changes
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