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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"O*NET"”.

  1. O*NET or NOT? Adequacy of the O*NET system's rater and format choices

    Hollander, EranVirginia Tech2001

    The O*NET was built to replace the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) and form a highly accessible, on-line (through the World Wide Web), common language occupational information center (Dye & Silver, 1999). This study tested the relevance of the self-rating choice and unconventional BARS …

    vt Repository record

  2. How do occupations differ across South Korea and the US: Studies of RIASEC occupational interest profiles (OIPs)

    Youn, JisooUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2024

    O*NET occupational data has been exported outside the US, however its validity outside the US has been rarely tested. Holland’s (1997) RIASEC model is one of the key components of O*NET occupational data. Holland’s theory is based on the parallel underlying RIASEC interest structure of persons and …

    uiuc Repository record

  3. Interest item diagnostics through IRT: an application of GPCM and tree-based IRT models to contemporary measures of interests

    Wee, Jian Ming ColinUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2021

    … studies of contemporary interest measures: The O*NET Interest Profiler (Rounds, Hoff & Lewis, 2021) and the Comprehensive Assessment of Basic Interests (CABIN; Su, Tay, Liao, Zhang & Rounds, 2018). For the O*NET Interest Profiler (IP), I use IRT to demonstrate the viability of a new tree-based …

    uiuc Repository record

  4. Three Essays in Labor Economics

    Axelrod, Huong Thi Ngoc

    … of earnings and the effect of social networks on starting wage. </p><p>Chapter 1, co-authored with Professor Hugo Jales, evaluates theoretical models of the distribution of earnings. The shape of the distribution of earnings in a country is informative about income inequality in that …

    syracuse-diss Repository record

  5. A recipe for balance or conflict: factors related to work-nonwork dynamics among chefs

    Vlass, Sophia2023

    … publicly through an information source such as O*NET could be effective in aiding career-related decisions for prospective job incumbents.

    utc Repository record

  6. Assessing Vocational Interests: Convergence and Divergence of Inventories and Informants

    Russell, MaryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … Inventory, SII; Self-Directed Search, SDS; O*Net Interest Profiler, IP; and Unisex ACT Interest Inventory, UNIACT). The multitrait-multisource matrix was analyzed using Campbell and Fiske's (1959) guidelines and using SEM models designed to evaluate such matrices (Eid, Lischetzke & Nussbeck, …

    uiuc Repository record

  7. The spatial clustering of occupations

    Swift, Henry SpencerMassachusetts Institute of Technology2014

    … data from the decennial U.S. Census. I use O*NET data on occupational tasks to construct a measure of occupational distance. I then estimate labor supply curves to determine to test the predictions of the theory. I do not find substantial evidence for this mechanism.

    mit Repository record

  8. What do interest inventories measure? The convergence and content validity of four RIASEC inventories

    Chu, ChuUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2021

    … Self-Directed Search (SDS), the O*NET Interest Profiler (IP), the ACT Interest Inventory (UNIACT), and the Strong Interest Inventory (SII). Three methods were used to analyze different aspects of convergence: 1) correlated trait-correlated methods (CT-CM) model, 2) high-point code …

    uiuc Repository record

  9. Tree Estimation Based on an L(1) Loss Criterion

    Smith, Thomas JayUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … and Training Administration's (1998) O*NET Content Model, and food data from Ross and Murphy (1999). Both the L2 iterative projection (IP) approach of Hubert and Arabie (1995) and the IRIP L1 approach were applied. Both methods identified very similar solutions when the best-fitting and …

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  10. Impact of Occupational Flexibility on Labor Market Outcomes of Women Following Childbirth

    Hu, Jia-en JaneMassachusetts Institute of Technology2025

    … flexibility characteristics from the O*NET database, we utilize an event study specification to determine the impact of a first child on various labor market outcomes for women within high vs low flexibility occupations and women whose spouses are within high vs low flexibility …

    mit Repository record

  11. Three Essays in Labor Economics

    Espanani, ZahraGraduate Studies2025

    … linked with occupational skill measures from O*NET, I apply a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposi-tion to quantify the role of task-based skills. I find that differences in skills explain only a modest share of the gap, while differences in returns to skills between men and women ac-count for a larger …

    calgary Repository record

  12. How do occupational sedentary behavior and occupational cognitive complexity relate to cognitive function?

    Rizvi, Nabeela2023

    … Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET). Linear regression analyses were computed to evaluate the association between occupational sedentary time and cognitive function, including models adjusting for age, sex, education, and substantive complexity. RESULTS: Higher …

    bu Repository record

  13. A Longitudinal Study of Alcohol and Drug Use in the Workplace

    Zhang, ZhiweiVirginia Tech1999

    … and the 1998 National Occupational Information Network (O*NET 98), I find that employees' drinking and controlled drug use behavior are predicted by a number of individual background characteristics, as well as workplace-environment variables. I also find that occupational characteristics …

    vt Repository record

  14. Essays on Entrepreneurship

    Oka, YoshikoThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2023

    … data from the Current Population Survey and O*NET, I find that job changers who have a higher level of non-routine interactive skills are more likely to enter entrepreneurship. On the other hand, job losers are motivated by non-routine analytical skills to start their own business. Moreover, …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  15. Occupational Skills and Gender Wage Gap

    Zhou, YuVirginia Tech2018

    … Titles (DOT) and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET). The main empirical finding is that female workers possess much higher level of caring skills, and the returns to caring skills are significantly negative but have increased over time, accounting for a major part of the persistent …

    vt Repository record

  16. Dimensions of Earnings Inequality in Australia

    Esposto, Alexis SVictoria University2005

    … in full-time work, the analysis found that the O*NET measures of skill and knowledge provided some tentative evidence that supports the skill bias hypothesis in Australia. Thirdly, in the exploration of the relationship between skill bias, alternative job types and earnings inequality, the thesis …

    vu-aus Repository record

  17. Hiring, recessions, and careers : three essays in personnel economics

    Forsythe, Eliza C. (Eliza Carla)Massachusetts Institute of Technology2014

    … I develop occupational quality indices using O*NET and OES data and find evidence consistent with both predictions, suggesting that firms' hiring behavior actively contributes to negative outcomes for young workers during recessions. In Chapter 2, I document that occupational mobility is …

    mit Repository record

  18. Injury Risk at Work, Safety Motivation, and the Role of Masculinity: A Moderated Mediation

    Bauerle, Timothy J2012

    uconn-diss Repository record

  19. Exploring Engineering Employment Trends: A Decade-long Deep Dive into Skills and Competences Included in Job Advertisements

    Alsharif, Abdulrahman MohammedVirginia Tech2025

    … framework leverages a dictionary of O*NET job title terms and engineering-specific vocabulary to refine the labeling of jobs originally mapped using Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes. To validate the classification accuracy, I evaluated results using confusion matrix …

    vt Repository record

  20. Tasks, Skills, and Jobs in the Green Economy

    Cheng, YangVirginia Tech2024

    … approach using the Occupational Information Network to define and characterize green tasks, skills, and jobs. Using Natural Language Processing, we develop a method to quantify the "greenness'' of tasks and occupations. Utilizing this index, we explore the significant role of green skills …

    vt Repository record

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