Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191286 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 281
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
Whether individuals choose occupations that teach general or specific skills can have important implications on how protected they are from changing conditions on the labor market. This paper looks at the impact of growing up in a region exposed to structural change caused by import competition on vocational occupation choices using longitudinal social security data for Germany. Results show that individuals enter more skill-specific occupations like manufacturing and less general occupations like services if exposed to higher local import competition. Lifetime earnings are adversely affected, which can be attributed to vocational occupation choices.
Subjects: 
Trade shocks
occupational choice
vocational education
occupational skill specificity
local labor markets
JEL: 
J24
J21
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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