College Degree Supply and Occupational Allocation of Graduates the Case of the Czech Republic

Barbara Pertold-Gębicka

CERGE-EI Working Papers from The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague

Abstract: Public funding drives much of the recent growth of college degree supply in Europe, but few indicators are available to assess its optimal level. In this paper, I investigate an indicator of college skills usage - the fraction of college graduates employed in "college" occupations. Gottschalk and Hansen (2003) propose to iden- tify "college" occupations based on within-occupation college wage premia; I build on their strategy to study the local-labor-market relationship between the share of college graduates in the population and the use of college skills. Empirical results based on worker-level data from Czech NUTS-4 districts suggest a positive rela- tionship, thus supporting the presence of an endogenous influence of the number of skilled workers on the demand for them.

Keywords: Occupational allocation; demand for skills; productivity spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03
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