Summary This paper analyses the skill supply consequences of skill biased technological change. In a simple microeconomic model it is shown that higher skill wage mark-ups as well as higher relative unskilled unemployment - frequently attributed to skill biased technological change - induce...

Summary This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration, and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group...