Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 11 December 2024, LG 4.154 (!!)
You are invited to join the weekly Nuremberg Research Seminar in Economics on 11 December 2024, from 13.15 to 14.45 pm. The seminar will be held in room LG 4.154 (!!). Simon Wiederhold (University of Halle-Wittenberg) will be talking about “The Value of Early-Career Skills”
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We develop novel measures of worker skills that depict the full range and intensity of human capital at labor market entry. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of learning each skill. Following workers over their careers in administrative data, we find that cognitive, social, and digital skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly – yet differently – rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and social skills since the 1990s, while returns to cognitive skills have increased only moderately.