Ludger Wößmann, ifo - Who Has Valuable Skills? Evidence from LinkedIn Profiles...

Title: Who Has Valuable Skills? Evidence from LinkedIn Profiles on Skills by Education, Experience, and Gender
(joint with David Dorn, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher, and Lisa Simon)

Abstract: To depict worker skills in their multidimensionality, we analyze the skill sets of over 10 million U.S. college graduates from professional profiles on the online networking platform LinkedIn. The age profile of the number of reported skills looks remarkably similar to age-earnings profiles. Older and better-educated workers have larger shares of occupation-specific skills. Workers with more, and particularly specific, skills earn higher salaries. Skills account for more earnings variation than detailed vectors of conventional human capital proxies of education and experience. Gender differences in skill profiles can rationalize a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap and its lifecycle pattern.

Presenter: Ludger Wößmann, ifo Center for the Economics of Education

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