A cross-country study of skills and unemployment flows

Journal for Labour Market Research

Damir Stijepic¹ 

[1] Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany;

关键词: Gross worker flows;    Unemployment;    Skills;    Education;    Human capital;    International comparisons;    Survey of Adult Skills;    PIAAC;    J20;    J24;    J60;    J64;    I20;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12651-021-00289-x

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY