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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzenberger, Bernd
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint : Physica, 1999.
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.