Skill-intensity of occupations, labor market polarization, and occupational allocation of college graduates
Abstract
The first chapter is motivated by a rapid expansion of higher education systems in Central European countries, where universities are largely state-funded and provision of higher education is a public policy decision. In the second chapter, I propose a model-based measure of occupational skill-intensity-a measure allowing to consistently track technological progress on occupational level or to derive the demand for educated labor within different groups of occupations.
The last chapter provides further analysis of the labor market polarization. I note that although much attention has been given to job polarization on national labor markets, there is little evidence on cross-country differences in the shape of employment changes distribution, which is used to picture polarization.