Educational Attainment and the Cyclical Sensitivity of Employment
研究教育程度是否影响就业数量的波动性,发现教育程度越低,就业比率波动越大;女性高中辍学者的就业波动随时间加剧,而1984年后高低技能就业对商业周期的反应趋于一致。
This article examines whether there are educational premiums on the quantity side of the labor market. We document four findings: (1) Trend employment patterns shifted for most educational levels post-1977; (2) the lower the level of educational attainment, the more volatile the employment ratio; (3) the volatility of employment for female high school dropouts increased over time even as the economy became less volatile; and (4) since 1984, the responses of skilled and unskilled employment to the business cycle have become more alike. This latter finding is consistent with a reduced degree of capital-skill complementarity during this period.