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dc.contributor.author | Albæk, Karsten |
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dc.date | 2017-09-14T12:11:04Z |
dc.date | 2017-09-14T12:11:04Z |
dc.date | 2015 |
dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/115380 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/115380 |
dc.description | This paper investigates skills and the use of skills at work in 21 OECD countries. The skills included in the analysis are literacy, numeracy and problem-solving. The paper investigates the conjecture that the deterioration of skills with age might be more pronounced in occupations with a limited use of skills than in occupations with more intensive use of these skills – an implication of the ‘use it or lose it’ hypothesis. I look at the development over age of both measured skills and the use of skills at work in two aggregate categories of occupations: a group of high-skilled workers (ISCO major ocupations from 0 to 4) and a group of low-skilled workers (ISCO major occupations from 5 to 9). High-skilled workers have higher measured skills than low-skilled workers and high-skilled workers use skills more at work than low-skilled workers. Measured skills decline from the age of 35 both for high- and low-skilled workers at about the same pace. The use of skills at work also declines from the age of 35 for both high-skilled workers and low-skilled workers at about the same pace, and at about the same rate as measured skills. The evidence does not support the ‘use it or lose it’ hypothesis. |
dc.format | 46 p. |
dc.format | application/pdf |
dc.language | eng |
dc.publisher | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona |
dc.relation | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions |
dc.relation | IEB Working Paper 2015/24 |
dc.relation | [WP E-IEB15/24] |
dc.rights | cc-by-nc-nd, (c) Albæk et al., 2015 |
dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject | Certificació d'aptituds professionals |
dc.subject | Competències professionals |
dc.subject | Envelliment |
dc.subject | Certification of vocational qualifications |
dc.subject | Vocational qualifications |
dc.subject | Aging |
dc.title | A test of the ‘lose it or use it’ hypothesis in labour markets around the world |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |