IT skills, occupation specificity and job separations

This paper examines how workers’ earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the acquired IT skills and specificity of their occupational training. We categorize skill bundles along two independent dimensions. First, we distinguish between that are more specific or less compared to needed in overall labor market. Second, as digitalization becomes ever important, contain different types skills, generic expert skills. expect separations, these can have opposing effects, either reducing amplifying losses workers with bundles. find clearly results for occupations—but not general occupations: Having is positively correlated whereas negatively correlated.