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, this paper presents empirical evidence that technological skill bias is also present for business related services, an … increasingly important sector in the German economy. Cross-sectional data from an innovation survey and panel data from a quarterly … five different skill groups. The micro-level data also allow the analysis of shifting employment patterns for a single …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular … to what extent skill-biased technical change and trade liberalization share a major responsibility. The conclusion of …
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skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …
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German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...
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This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage inequality among women increased less strongly compared to...
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Socio-Economic Panel and micro-data from the Employment Register of the Federal Labour Office. We find that earnings …
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