Trends in Job Skill Demands in OECD Countries

Michael Handel

No 143, OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This report examines skill trends in 24 OECD countries over the past several decades. The skill measures used include broad occupation groups, country-specific direct measures of skill requirements from international surveys, and direct skill measures from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database applied to both United States and European labour force surveys. Each kind of data has its own strengths and limitations but they tell a consistent story. Ce rapport examine les tendances en matière de compétences observées dans 24 pays de l’OCDE au cours de ces dernières décennies. Les mesures de compétence utilisées sont les groupes généraux de professions, les mesures directes des compétences requises par pays, fournies par les enquêtes internationales, et les mesures directes de compétence de la base de données Occupational Information Network (O*NET) appliquées dans les enquêtes sur la population active aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. Chaque type de données a ses propres forces et ses propres limites, mais tous donnent des résultats cohérents.

Keywords: human capital; skill-biased technological change; skills demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11-28
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