Wen Wen, Lu Zhou, Die Hu, Mingyu Zhang, Zehua Yan, Xiaofeng Tang
The impact of college experience on female students' self-perceived employability in STEM majors
Frontiers in psychology
leveraging discrete skill knowledge worker requirements occupation provided onet empirical approach employs networkbased tools economic complexity framework characterize us occupational network approach provides insights interplay wages complexity relatedness skill sets within occupation complementing conventional human capital frameworks empirical strategy threefold first construct job skill progression networks nodes represent jobs skills link two jobs skills indicates statistically significant cooccurrence skills required carry two jobs useful tools identify jobswitching paths skill complementarities second harnessing fitness complexity algorithm define datadriven skillbased complexity measure jobs positively maps interesting deviations wages bottomup broad abstractmanual routinenonroutine job characterisations however providing continuous endogenous metric assess degree complexity occupational skillset third building relatedness corporate coherence metrics introduce measure jobs skill coherence negatively maps wages findings may inform policymakers employers designing effective labour market policies training schemes rather fostering hyperspecialization favor acquisition complex uncoherent skill sets enabling workers easily move throughout job skill progression networks make informed career choices decisions unlocking higher wage opportunities