CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Racila, Felicia |
|---|---|
| Title | Identifying the effects on wages of the multiple skills in the skill biased technological change.Evidence from Switzerland |
| Summary | This thesis uses Swiss individual data matched with the Dictionary of Occupational Titles to investigate the relationship between wages and occupational skills. I use the factor model to aggregate the multi-dimensional skills dataset. The empirical results indicate that occupations that require planning intelligence pay higher wages while there are lower returns for skills that require physical skills regardless of the type of manual tasks required. Verbal and perception intelligence do not show any relation to wages while precision skills have higher return than the mean and the effect has increased with time. For occupations where computer use is at high level, occupations skills have lower effect on real wages. The empirical results also show that 2/3 of the occupations require at least 2 skills in top quartile. |
| Supervisor | Telegdy , Álmos |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/racila_felicia.pdf |
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