The changing demand for skills in the Netherlands

This study examines the wage returns and changes in the returns for workers employed in occupations that are intensive in tasks requiring non-routine analytical and non-routine interpersonal skills in the Netherlands during the period 2001-2016. We match measures of skills from the US O*NET system to the International Standard Occupation Classification (ISCO). We combine these data with information on employment and wages from administrative data from Statistics Netherlands. We document an increase in the returns to analytical skills, from 9.4 percent in 2001 to 16.0 percent in 2016. Quantile... Mehr ...