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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621722
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
Biewen, Martin - 2017
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943872
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
Biewen, Martin - 2017
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945241
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Occupational tasks and wage inequality in West Germany : a decomposition analysis
Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 79 (2022), pp. 1-18
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234800
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Occupational tasks and wage inequality in Germany : a decomposition analysis
Koomen, Miriam; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022
We study the role of occupational tasks as drivers of West German wage inequality. We match administrative wage data with longitudinal task data, which allows us to account for within-occupation changes in task content over time. We run RIF regression-based decompositions to quantify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013449229
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Technological change, unemployment and recent trends in human capital formation : impact on the German wage structure
Möller, Joachim - In: Unemployment in Europe : proceedings of a conference …, (pp. 121-147). 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001529268
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Employment polarization in Germany : role of technology, trade and human capital
Consoli, Davide; Roy, Ipsita - 2015
Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and … international trade on the skill composition of occupations, the paper employs a task-based approach to analyze structural changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392588
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443321