scholarly journals Returns to migration after job loss—The importance of job match

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orsa Kekezi ◽  
Ron Boschma
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Career Change ◽  
Displaced Workers ◽  
Treatment Model ◽  
Region Of Origin ◽  
Job Match ◽  
Group Experiences ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
Job Mismatch

Loss of specific human capital is often identified as a mechanism through which displaced workers might experience permanent drops in earnings after job loss. Research has shown that displaced workers who migrate out of their region of origin have lower earnings than those who do not. This paper extends the discussion on returns to migration by accounting for the type of jobs people get and how related they are to their skills. Using an endogenous treatment model to control for selection bias in migration and career change, we compare displaced stayers with displaced movers in Sweden. Results show that migrants who get a job that matches their occupation- and industry-specific skills display the highest earnings among all displaced workers. If migration is combined with a job mismatch, earning losses are instead observed. This group experiences the lowest earnings among all displaced workers.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study on Distance Education and Job Match

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 619
Author(s):  
Fengliang Li ◽  
Liang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Distance Learners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Job Match ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Specific Human Capital

Job match has always been the focus of educational research. However, current empirical studies are limited to the analysis of face-to-face education, and there’s no empirical study focusing on the job match of distance education. To fill the gap in this research field, this study analyzes the distance learners in China to demonstrate the relationship between distance education and job match by using the data from a nationwide household survey. The empirical results involve two significant findings. Firstly, distance learners and face-to-face learners have no significant difference in job match. This study attempts to explain this with the human capital theory, that is, distance learners and face-to-face learners have no difference in obtaining their specific human capital, so they both prefer to work on a position characterized by job match. Secondly, job mismatch has no significant negative effect on the income of distance learners. This study attempts to explain this with the screening theory, that is, though distance education would improve the learners’ specific human capital, it still acts as a diploma signal, to some extent, in China, thus making it impossible for the specific human capital obtained by distance learners to transform into a superiority in income.

Post-Layoff Earnings among Semiconductor Workers

ILR Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Ong ◽  
Don Mar
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Displaced Workers ◽  
Internal Labor Markets ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
High Technology Sector

This study uses administrative data from California's unemployment insurance program to analyze the post-layoff earnings of displaced and recalled workers in Silicon Valley's semiconductor industry between 1984 and 1987. The authors find losses from inter-sectoral displacement that are consistent with losses found in other studies of job dislocation. The results show, however, that displaced workers who found work within the high-technology sector had earnings similar to those of recalled workers, a finding at odds with theories that emphasize either firm-specific human capital or internal labor markets. These results are instead consistent with the presence of both industry-specific human capital and efficiency wages in the high-technology sector.

Mismatch Between Education and Occupation: A Case Study of Pakistani Graduates.

2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4II) ◽  
pp. 531-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujaat Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
Job Mismatch

In this study, an attempt has been made to estimate the incidences of job mismatch in Pakistan. The study has divided the job mismatch into three categories; education-job mismatch, qualification mismatch and field of study and job mismatch. Both the primary and secondary datasets have been used in which the formal sector employed graduates have been targeted. This study has measured the education-job mismatch by three approaches and found that about one-third of the graduates are facing education-job mismatch. In similar, more than one-fourth of the graduates are mismatched in qualification, about half of them are over-qualified and the half are under-qualified. The analysis also shows that 11.3 percent of the graduates have irrelevant and 13.8 percent have slightly relevant jobs to their studied field of disciplines. Our analysis shows that women are more likely than men to be mismatched in field of study. JEL classification: I23, I24, J21, J24 Keywords: Education and Inequality, Higher Education, Human Capital, Labour Market

scholarly journals Change in occupational tasks and its implications: evidence from a task panel from 1973 to 2011 for Western Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Maier
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Task Change ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
Specific Human Capital

AbstractThe change of tasks in occupations is of interest to economic and sociological research from three perspectives. The task-based technological change approach describes tasks as the link between capital input and labor demand. In human capital theory, tasks are used to distinguish between general and specific human capital. Moreover, in institutional economics or sociology, it is argued that the specificity of occupations influences the marketability of the corresponding skills and tasks. However, data sources that illustrate task change within occupations are rare. The objective of this paper is therefore to introduce a task panel, which is created based on 16 cross-sectional surveys from between 1973 and 2011 of the German microcensus (Labor-Force-Survey), as an additional source to monitor task change. I present and discuss the harmonization method for eleven main activities that are exercised by the incumbents of the occupation within 176 occupational groups. To demonstrate the research potential of this novel data source, I develop an alternative theoretical view on the task-technology framework and classify the harmonized tasks according to their relationship to technological inventions in the third industrial (micro-electronic) revolution (technologically replaceable, technology-accompanying, technology-complementary and technologically neutral). Matching the task panel to an already existing Occupational Panel (OccPan) for Western Germany from 1976 to 2010, I can use fixed-effect regressions to show that changes of tasks within occupations correspond with theoretical expectations regarding the median wage growth of an occupation. The task panel can be matched to any data set containing a German classification of occupations from 1975, 1988 or 1992 to investigate further effects of task change on individual labor market success.

Canadian White-Collar Workers' Views of Their Experience with Downsizing or Job Loss

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon Goldenberg ◽  
Theresa Kline
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Displaced Workers ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Direct Use

Despite continuing bouts of downsizing in North America, there is relatively little literature on Canadian white-collar workers' experience of this kind of job loss. In the present context “downsizing” refers to nonperformance-based job loss, that is, job loss through restructuring, strategic planning, or other organizational initiatives wherein individuals lose their jobs through no fault of their own. From fall of 1992 and through the winter of 1993, we conducted interviews with 144 mostly white collar displaced workers in and around Calgary, Alberta. Their perceptions of many aspects of the downsizing experience are described. The advice our participants gave to others may be of direct use. Several issues that clearly need research are also noted.

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