TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dorn, David
AU  - Schoner, Florian
AU  - Seebacher, Moritz
AU  - Simon, Lisa
AU  - Woessmann, Ludger
        TI  - Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap
        PY  - 2025/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17896
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17896
        AB  - We measure human capital using the self-reported skill sets of nearly 9 million U.S. college graduates from professional profiles on LinkedIn. We aggregate skill strings into 48 clusters of general, occupation-specific, and managerial skills. Multidimensional skills can account for several important labor-market patterns. First, the number and composition of skills are systematically related to measures of human-capital investment such as education and work experience. The number of skills increases with experience, and the average age-skill profile closely resembles the well-established concave age-earnings profile. Second, workers who report more skills, especially specific and managerial ones, hold higher-paid jobs. Skill differences account for more earnings variation than detailed measures of education and experience. Third, we document a sizable gender gap in skills. While women and men report nearly equal numbers of skills shortly after college graduation, women’s skill count increases more slowly with age subsequently. A simple quantitative exercise shows that women’s slower skill accumulation can be fully accounted for by reduced work hours associated with motherhood. The resulting gender differences in skills rationaliz…
        KW  - online professional network
KW  - social media
KW  - experience
KW  - education
KW  - gender
KW  - human capital
KW  - skills
KW  - labor market
KW  - tasks
KW  - earnings
        ER  -