A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows

Damir Stijepic

Journal for Labour Market Research, 2021, vol. 55, Article 9

Abstract: "Using 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." (Author's abstract, © 2021 Springer Nature) ((en))

Keywords: Welt; Auswirkungen; Bildungsniveau; Erwerbsbevölkerung; Arbeitslosigkeitsentwicklung; internationaler Vergleich; kognitive Fähigkeit; Mathematik; qualifikationsspezifische Faktoren; soziale Qualifikation; Arbeitslosenquote; Arbeitslosigkeit; Vertrauen; Zu- und Abgänge; 2011-2017 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J20 J24 J60 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-03-27
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