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A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows
Damir Stijepicsubject
ErziehungswissenschaftEconomicsJ24Adult populationArbeitslosigkeitinternationaler Vergleich20100Gross worker flowscognitive abilityPIAACEconomicsLabor Market Research050207 economicsBildung und Erziehung050205 econometrics media_commonReverse causalitySkillsSurvey of Adult Skills05 social sciencesWirtschaftEducation and PedagogicsI20BildungsniveauunemploymentInternational comparisonsmedia_common.quotation_subjecteducationSample (statistics)level of educationEducationGross worker flows; Skills; Survey of Adult Skills PIAACddc:370Humankapitalparasitic diseases0502 economics and businessddc:330human capitalCognitive skillCross countrykognitive FaktorenArbeitsmarktforschungInternational surveyinternational comparisonUnemployment10600Demographic economicsJ20J64Bildungcognitive factorskognitive FähigkeitJ60description
AbstractUsing an international survey that directly assesses the cognitive skills of the adult population, I study the relation between skills and unemployment flows across 37 countries. Depending on the specifically assessed domain, I document that skills have an unconditional correlation with the log-risk-ratio of exiting to entering unemployment of 0.65–0.68 across the advanced and skill-abundant countries in the sample. The relation is remarkably robust and it is unlikely to be due to reverse causality. I do not find evidence that this positive relation extends to the seven relatively less advanced and less skill-abundant countries in the sample: Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Chile, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-27 | Journal for Labour Market Research |