Upskilling

Modestino, A. S., Shoag, D., & Ballance, J. (2020). Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?. Review of Economics and Statistics, 102(4), 793-805.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2020

Volume

102

Issue

4

Pages

793-805

DOI

10.1162/rest_a_00835

DOI registrant

MIT Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00835

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economics_finance

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  • Labor markets. In downturns recruiters favour brand-name credentials and traditional paths, and non-traditional candidates see hiring rates fall faster than aggregate headcount.

    This sourceShows employers opportunistically raise education and experience requirements within occupations when the supply of job seekers rises (e.g., the Great Recession), a recruiter flight to brand-name credentials that disproportionately screens out non-traditional candidates.

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    The abstract backs only that US employers raised education and experience requirements as labour supply rose in the Great Recession; it says nothing of brand-name credentials or non-traditional candidates' relative hiring rates.

    “Using a proprietary database of online job postings, we find that education and experience requirements rose during the Great Recession. These increases were larger in states and occupations that experienced greater increases in the supply of available workers.”

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