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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299232
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262337
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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318593
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509846
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Flexibility of Firms' Labor Demand: Substitutability or Complementarity.
Bellmann, Lutz; Bender, Stefan; Schank, Thorsten - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 1+2, pp. 109-126
unskilled, skilled and highly skilled employees) for West German production industries for the year 1995. Substitution … substitution between blue collar and white collar workers are relatively low; unskilled, skilled and highly skilled blue collar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596522
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700936
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615508
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - International Conferences on Panel Data - 2002
During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany and other OECD countries has experienced a decrease in the demand for low skilled and a rise in the demand for highly skilled employees. The adoption of modern technologies in the production process as well as the growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729280