proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low … negotiations due to a drop in the replacement rate or firing costs, leading to a fall in wages, (ii) hiring subsidies, and (iii …

throughout the period, partly explained by a rapid growth in demand for unskilled labour, which helped maintain low-skilled wages …-2001. We argue that for women, low-skilled wages were kept up by the introduction of the minimum wage in 2000, and high skilled … wages fell due to a rapid rise in the supply of highly qualified women. The Irish example shows that skill-biased technical …

skills, the assignment of skills to tasks, and the evolution of wages. -- skill demands ; technological change ; job tasks …

being acquired in the formal educational system, regardless the structure of wages paid for occupations in the economy. Some …