Seminar in Economics | The Human Side of Structural Transformation with Federico Rossi, University of Warwick
Welcome to this Higher Seminar in Economics organised by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Federico Rossi, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Warwick. Federico will present "The Human Side of Structural Transformation".
Abstract
This paper analyzes the returns to training-occupation combinations. I use administrative panel data on apprenticeships and employment for German workers and identify the returns using data on occupation-specific vacancies. For the estimation, I set up a Roy model and extend existing control function approaches to deal with selection in a two-stage, high-dimensional setting. I find sizable returns to training in one's occupation, and substantial bias when not controlling for selection. Returns are decreasing in the task distance between training and occupation. I argue that imperfect information leads to ex-post suboptimal training choices, and that retraining could address this ex-ante friction.
Federico Rossi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and an Associate to the Centre for Macroeconomics.
His research focuses on Macroeconomics, Development and Applied Econometrics.
More About The Speaker
This seminar takes place in person at Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65, The Sherman Room (room 350).
Please contact kristen.pendleton@hhs.se if you have questions.