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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We … particular of the post baby boomer cohorts born after 1965 – are responsible for the surprising decline in the relative supply of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709378
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 72 (2021), pp. 1-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256519
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Skill-biased technological change, international trade and the wage structure
Kölling, Arnd; Schank, Thorsten - 2002
unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany. Estimation results of the conditional labour demand for three … Betriebsdaten zusammengefügten Datensatzes, für West-Deutschland (1994-1997) untersucht. Schätzungen der bedingten Arbeitsnachfrage …During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509846
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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953009
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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
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443321
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Technological change, skill demand, and wage inequality in Indonesia
Lee, Jong-Wha; Wie, Dainn - 2013
This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003-2009 for overall industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734161
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Inequality and technological change
Macera, Manuel; Tsujiyama, Hitoshi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 2, pp. 427-451
We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We develop a model with heterogeneous workers and firms in which the demand for skills is characterized by firms' recruiting behavior. We use the model to quantify the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053136
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Technical Change, Heterogeneity in Skill Demand, and Employment Polarization
Kim, Sung min - 2013
We explore how the rapid adoption of computer-related assets affects the recent polarization of employment in the U.S. labor market, which is inconsistent with the skill-biased technological change hypothesis. Similar to Goos and Manning (2007), we show that the job polarization could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076893
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Engines of the skill premium in the Portuguese economy
Nogueira, Manuel Carlos; Alfonso, Óscar - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 65 (2019) 3, pp. 318-341
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118221
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Skill upgrading and rigid relative wages : the case of Danish manufactruing
Skaksen, Jan Rose; Sørensen, Anders - 2002
Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. Assuming capital-skill complementarity and fixed relative wages as a consequence of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001732880