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Supply of Labour by Education. Dennis Fredriksen, Hege Marie Gjefsen and Nils Martin Stølen Statistics Norway European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association Dublin, Ireland, May 17-19 2012. Background. Most OECD-countries Increased demand for high-skilled labour
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Supply of Labour by Education Dennis Fredriksen, Hege Marie Gjefsen and Nils Martin Stølen Statistics Norway European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association Dublin, Ireland, May 17-19 2012
Background • Most OECD-countries • Increased demand for high-skilled labour • Reduced demand and higher unemployment for low-skilled • Increased wage differences • Norway • Also increased demand for high-skilled and reduced demand for low-skilled • Smaller differences in wage and unemployment rates • Probably reflecting strong growth in supply of high-skilled
Hourly wages by educational levelPercent of hourly wages for workers with higher tertiary education
Planning models to project supply and demand for labour by education • Main aim: Avoid severe imbalances in the future • Demand side: • Employment in different industries projected by macroeconomic models • Only possible to handle a classification by few kinds of education in a macroeconomic model • Further division in a sub-model assuming that trends in changes in the shares of education continue • Supply side: • A dynamic microsimulation model is an efficient tool in analysing and projecting supply of labour by education
Education classified by level is included in most dynamic microsimulation models • Dynamic microsimulation opens for far more flexibility compared to traditional cohort component methods • Able to handle more detailed classification of education in combination with classifications along other dimensions • Education important for the probability to work, kind of work, level of earnings and retirement • Traditions for projecting population by education i Norway since the 1970s • Analysed and projected by the dynamic microsimulation model MOSART since the beginning of the 1990s
Education in the dynamic microsimulation model MOSART • 5 main levels of education subdivided into educational fields • A total of about 30 educational groups in the model • Reflecting the flexibility of the Norwegian educational system and movements from education to labour and vice versa • A complicated educational behaviour is also complicated to analyse
Educational choices included in MOSART • To enter education • To enter a specific field • To remain in education • To complete education • To have educational attainment updated without being in education • All the choices modelled by logistic regression • Educational choices explained by age, gender and earlier education
Comparing supply and demand- Labour supply based on fixed educational probabilities from MOSART compared to projected demand + fixed unemployment rates from the macroeconomic model MODAG