Degree of standardised certification of occupations

Abstract

"Occupations can be considered as an institution of the labour market, which has varying power to connect the educational system with the labour market. In order to make these institutional characteristics of occupations accessible for empirical analyses, I developed an indicator to measure the degree of standardized credentials of an occupation. The indicator provides the proportion of individual occupations within an occupational aggregate (e.g. 3-digit code of an occupational classification) whose educational qualifications are regulated by federal or state law uniform or equivalent credentials from higher education. This indicator reaches its highest value if an occupational unit contains only licensed individual occupations where the access to an occupation, the practicing and the use of a professional title are limited by legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions through required credentials (like physicians). Standardized credentials attest the holder of a professional title a minimum level of competencies and skills which are required for practicing occupational tasks. The lowest value of the indicator is reached if no access control exists for any of the individual occupations summed up to one unit (like helping professions). This methodological report describes the data base and the way of calculating and aggregating the degree of standardized certification. The indicator was created for analyzes with the three-digit and two-digit level of the German Classification of Occupations 2010 (KldB 2010) and the German Classification of Occupations 1988 (KldB 1988)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Vicari, B. (2014): Degree of standardised certification of occupations. An indicator for measuring institutional characteristics of occupations (KldB 2010, KldB 1988). (FDZ-Methodenreport 04/2014 (en)), Nürnberg, 20 p.