TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hemelt, Steven W.
AU  - Hershbein, Brad J.
AU  - Martin, Shawn
AU  - Stange, Kevin
        TI  - College Majors and Skills: Evidence from the Universe of Online Job Ads
        PY  - 2021/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14964
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14964
        AB  - We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U.S. online job ads. Social and organizational skills are general in that they are sought by employers of almost all college majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn, general majors––Business and General Engineering––have skill profiles similar to all majors; Nursing and Education are specialized. These cross-major differences in skill profiles explain considerable wage variation, with little role for within-major differences in skills across areas. College majors can thus be reasonably conceptualized as portable bundles of skills.
        KW  - college major
KW  - skill demand
        ER  -