Due to strict reliance on competitive labor markets, standard approaches which measure skill biased technical change (SBTC) conflate labor market distortions which prevent firms from choosing the efficient ratio between skilled and unskilled labor and `true' SBTC. This contrasts with recent...

Economic literature has so far produced very limited (country-level only) evidence on the magnitude of skilled biased technical change (SBTC) and not investigated at all the extent to which, coupled with labor market imperfections, it can be associated to an inefficient use of labor. We present...

While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel findings on cognitive skill distributions by gender across 34 countries....

While gender differences in labor force participation and wages have been studied extensively, gender gaps in cognitive skills among adults are not yet well understood. Using the PIAAC dataset, this paper presents novel findings on cognitive skill distributions by gender across 34 countries....

Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung in Sachsen wurde im Rahmen dieser Studie ein belastbares Szenario für den Dresdner Arbeitsmarkt bis 2020 erarbeitet. Da sich die Stadt Dresden trotz einer positiven Bevölkerungsentwicklung nicht vom Bevölkerungsrückgang im Umland abkoppeln...