Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Rinawi, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias

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“…Graduates were asked to assess the usefulness of skills/competences acquired during their degree programmes in their job-seeking efforts (Nagarajan, Edwards 2015) or in their actual jobs (García-Aracil, Van Der Velden 2008;Cattani, Pedrini 2021;Liwiński, Pastore 2021). Some studies looked into how useful vocational skills were in relation to characteristics of specific occupations (Girsberger et al 2018). Interviews were held with employers and academic lecturers regarding their opinion and thoughts about competences that are expected on the labour market from people with higher education (e.g.…”

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Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

Piróg,

Hibszer

2023

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The objective of the study is to identify those skills that are actually needed by the labour market and allow university graduates to achieve the highest remuneration. To achieve this objective, the authors monitored, for 18 months, online job postings from six countries addressed to geography graduates. Online job postings are the most up-to-date and reliable source of data about the salaries that employers are willing to offer for specific skills or skillsets. A total of 17,397 advertisements were collected, out of which 7,407 included information about the offered salary. Applying text mining and regression tree (classification and regression tree [CART]) analyses, the authors identified skills that significantly differentiate annual salaries. The group of competences associated with higher earnings includes highly specialised geographic information system (GIS), statistical and geological skills. Lower salaries were linked to some general skills such as communicating in a native language as well as some specialised skills, but only to those related to teaching and conducting scientific research.

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confidence: 99%

Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

Piróg,

Hibszer

2023

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Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills

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Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

Which skills are the most prized? Analysing monetary value of geographers’ skills on the labour market in six European countries

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