Skilled Non-College Occupations in the U.S.
| dc.contributor.author | Scaglione, Matias D. | en |
| dc.date.accessed | 2019-06-21 | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-02T19:30:50Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-02T19:30:50Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-06-01 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This article presents a new approach to the identification of relatively skilled occupations that do not typically require a bachelor’s degree for entry. The author calls this group of occupations Skilled Non-College Occupations (SNCOs). The proposed approach relies heavily on a new skills index based on data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. In contrast with studies that estimate that employment in so-called middle-skill jobs in the U.S. represents one third to nearly a half of total employment, this study estimates that the combined employment of SNCOs accounted for 16.2% of all jobs in 2016. Exploratory analysis shows that SNCOs (a) represent only one in five jobs that do not require a 4-year college degree for entry; (b) encompass a wide variety of occupations and industries, even though they are highly concentrated in a relatively small number of them; (c) usually pay above average wages; (d) show a quite low correlation between wages and the skills scores; and (e) include a significant proportion of workers who are potentially underemployed in terms of their level of educational attainment. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Wisconsin Center for Education Research | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | https://wcer.wisc.edu/docs/working-papers/Working_Paper_No_2018_7.pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/92641 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Wisconsin Center for Education Research | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | WCER Working Paper; 2018-7 | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | educational attainment | en |
| dc.subject | skilled non-college occupations | en |
| dc.subject | labor market | en |
| dc.title | Skilled Non-College Occupations in the U.S. | en |
| dc.type | Working paper | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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