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R. Maria del-Rio Chanona on Modeling Labor Markets & Tech Unemployment

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How to Test if Two Occupations Are Similar

Researchers looked at data on job transitions to see if two occupations were similar enough for one person to switch jobs. They found that a paramedic and a nurse might be similar because they do stitches, in the same way that a taxi driver and a bus driver might beSimilarity is defined as amount of work activities they share but some normalizing factor.

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