Evaluation of Skills in IT Occupations

Student: Artamoshina Polina

Faculty: St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management

Educational Programme: Management and Analytics for Business (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

The aim of this research is to identify the changes in the implicit monetary values of skills in IT occupations. Using the dataset of more than 60000 Russian IT job descriptions observed during 13 years-period from 2005 to 2017, this paper demonstrates which skills and interactions between them are crucial for the wage determination and differences. What is more, using the Hedonic pricing approach the implicit monetary values of hard and soft skills are constructed. The results of the study acknowledge a significant effect of skills and occupations on the wage fluctuations and announcement. However, the ambivalent nature of skills is observed during the analysis of values in dynamics.

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