Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups : an Analysis for West Germany /
This book explores empirically for West Germany whether a decline in the relative demand for less skilled workers resulted in increased unemployment. Using up-to-date econometric techniques, a balanced mixture between descriptive evidence and structural estimation is provided, and there are various...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg :
Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica,
1999.
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| Series: | ZEW economic studies ;
6. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Basic Trends in Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups
- A Cohort Analysis of Wage Trends
- Wages, Prices, and International Trade
- The Skill Structure of Labor Demand
- Heterogeneous Labor in a Model of Wage Bargaining in West Germany
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: The Computation of Censored Quantile Regressions
- Appendix B: Block Bootstrap Procedure for Robust Inference
- Appendix C: Details of Data Description.