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The Early Careers Of Engineers And The Accumulation Of Skills In The Canadian Economy

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  • Marie Lavoie
  • Ross Finnie

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Engineering knowledge has an important component (the tacit dimension) that is acquired, developed, and enhanced through practical experience, or — conversely — that is never obtained or is lost due to the lack of such on-the-job applications. In this paper, we investigate various dimensions of the accumulation of skills for recent engineering graduates in Canada. While there appears to be a general belief that recent graduates face an increasingly difficult labour market, we find little evidence that this has been the case for engineers and there does not appear to be any widespread non-use, under-use, or mismatch of skills - at least, not up to 1992, the last year covered by the data.

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  • Marie Lavoie & Ross Finnie, 1998. "The Early Careers Of Engineers And The Accumulation Of Skills In The Canadian Economy," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 53-59.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ecinnt:v:7:y:1998:i:1:p:53-59
    DOI: 10.1080/10438599800000028
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    1. Giovanni Dosi & Christopher Freeman & Richard Nelson & Gerarld Silverberg & Luc Soete (ed.), 1988. "Technical Change and Economic Theory," LEM Book Series, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, number dosietal-1988, April.
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    1. Lavoie, Marie & Finnie, Ross, 1998. "The occupational dynamics of recent Canadian engineering graduates inside and outside the bounds of technology," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 27(2), pages 143-158, June.

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    Keywords

    Accumulation of Technology; Management of Technology; School-to-Work Transition; Post-Secondary Graduates; Engineering Expertise; Job-Education Skill Match; JEL Classification: 120; 121; J24; J44; J62. 03.032;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations

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