## Metadata - Author: [[oup-academic|Oup Academic]] - Full Title:: Earnings Dynamics, Changing Job Skills, and STEM Careers* - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[life-principles-and-long-standing-challenges|Life Principles And Long Standing Challenges]], [[Bullshit jobs|Bullshit Jobs]]. - URL:: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/4/1965/5858010?login=false - Finished date:: [[2023-04-27]] ## Highlights > We show that the earnings premium for college graduates majoring in technology-intensive subjects such as computer science, engineering, and business declines rapidly, and that these graduates sort out of faster-changing occupations as they gain experience. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gyzm1sj2x676vpph3prrjcn7)) > Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations have the highest rates of change, followed by some technology-intensive business occupations in fields such as advertising, market research, and logistics. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gyzm7z5djhxn6z7p4a920nes)) But we should measure similarity > changing careers require workers to learn many new tasks each yea ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gyzm9qc5dj1nfq85a3qktk33)) > STEM majors with higher scores on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT)—a widely used proxy for academic aptitude—leave STEM careers more often and at younger ages. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gyzmdanyxpdhy002vybfsty1)) > workers with one standard deviation higher ability are 5 percentage points more likely to work in STEM at age 24, but no more likely to work in STEM by age 40. W ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gyzmdr28n3grdw9njr709d3p)) > while Aubert, Caroli, and Roger (2006) find that innovative firms are more likely to hire younger workers. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gyzmh47pm5nzs8dqx5mx699p))