Occupational Specificity of Human Capital

By G. Kambourov, I. Manovskii. 2009

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Technology, Vintage-Specific Human Capital, and Labor Displacement: Evidence from Linking Patents with Occupations∗ (2022, background): “Unlike much of this literature, we do not consider worker skill to be a fixed characteristic of the worker: our model allows for the possibility that gains from new technologies can displace the demand for specific expertise of workers skilled at tasks associated with older vintages—similar to the l”
Occupational and Job Mobility in the US (2007, neutral): “Two recent papers, Madrian and Lefgren (2000) and Feng (2001), evaluate in depth the design of the matching criteria of annual (March) CPS records.”
Career Choice and Wage Growth (2011, methodology): “Parent (2000) and Kambourov and Manovskii (2009) use a variant of the Altonji and Shakotko (1987) IV method to estimate the parameters.”
Globalization and U.S. Wages: Modifying Classic Theory to Explain Recent Facts (2012, background): “Research on worker mobility has long found that human capital is partly specific to industries and occupations (for example, Jacobson, LaLonde and Sullivan 1993; Neal 1995; Kambourov and Manovskii 2009).”
The Payoff to Skill in the Third Industrial Revolution1 (2013, background): “More recently, Acemoglu ð2002, p. 13Þ noted that “models based on a single skill index” cannot well explain recent trends in inequality, while Kambourov and Manovskii ð2009Þ have shown that wages increase with occupational tenure, a finding that is interpreted as “consistent with occupational…”
Searching for Job Security and the Consequences of Job Loss (2021, background): “In turn, Kambourov and Manovskii (2009) find an important role for occupation-specific human capital. over a 20 year horizon can be directly attributed to the reductions in wage loss with the remaining 43% being attributed to the reduced employment rate.”
Rethinking Sustained Competitive Advantage from Human Capital (2012, background): “2 In the strategy context, industry-specific (Neal, 1995; Parent, 2000), occupation-specific (Kambourov & Manovskii, 2009), and task-specific (Gathmann & Schönberg, 2010) human capital can be treated as special cases of general human capital.”
Where Have the Middle-Wage Workers Gone? A Study of Polarization Using Panel Data (2016, background): “In this sense, the model is similar to Kambourov and Manovskii ð2009aÞ and Alvarez and Shimer ð2011Þ, while it differs from models where occupational choice is driven also by uncertainty or idiosyncratic match qualities, such as Neal ð1999Þ or Groes et al. ð2010Þ.16 Another abstraction made by the…”
The future of skills: employment in 2030 (2017, background): “…to firms of this labour supply flexibility, roughly a quarter of displaced workers experience a major change in skills – one that is associated with sizeable adjustment costs and wage losses (Poletaev and Robinson, 2008; Kambourov and Manovskii, 2009; Gathmann and Schonberg, 2010; Robinson, 2011).”
Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy? (2008, background): “See Rodrik (1995), Helpman (1997), and Gawande and Krishna (2003) for excellent surveys of the trade literature.”
Job Displacement Risk and the Cost of Business Cycles (2007, result): “16 The interpretation of human capital as occupation-specific as opposed to firm-specific is in line with evidence reported in Neal (1995) and Kambourov and Manovskii (2002) .”
Environmental Regulation and Green Skills: An Empirical Exploration (2018, background): “Labor research shows that workers’ relocation costs crucially depend on skill the similarity between occupations, and that skill specificity is more tied to occupations than to a particular firm (Poletaev and Robinson 2008; Kambourov and Manovskii 2009; Gathmann and Schönberg 2010).”