TY - CHAP

T1 - The Changing Skill Structure of Employment in German Manufacturing

T2 - A Peek Inside the Industry Black Box

AU - Addison, John T.

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 1998/1/1

Y1 - 1998/1/1

N2 - Like other nations, Germany has witnessed a fall in unskilled worker employment in recent years. As we shall see, the data point to a decline of almost 4 percent per year between 1976 and 1989. The German problem would appear to have been exacerbated by sticky relative wages; that is, one does not observe any increase in the qualifications premium over the same time period (see also Steiner and Wagner in this volume). Ironically, in view of past European criticism of U.S. job creation, in Germany as elsewhere in continental Europe there have been calls for measures to create low-wage jobs, albeit topped up with wage supplements.

AB - Like other nations, Germany has witnessed a fall in unskilled worker employment in recent years. As we shall see, the data point to a decline of almost 4 percent per year between 1976 and 1989. The German problem would appear to have been exacerbated by sticky relative wages; that is, one does not observe any increase in the qualifications premium over the same time period (see also Steiner and Wagner in this volume). Ironically, in view of past European criticism of U.S. job creation, in Germany as elsewhere in continental Europe there have been calls for measures to create low-wage jobs, albeit topped up with wage supplements.

KW - Economics

KW - foreign direct investment

KW - Technological Change

KW - Firm Size

KW - Unskilled Worker

KW - wage inequality

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/c308dd27-14fd-38b7-acd0-4f4722c4043e/

U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4615-4965-9_4

DO - 10.1007/978-1-4615-4965-9_4

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-4613-7253-0

SN - 978-0-7923-8318-5

SP - 59

EP - 87

BT - Globalization, Technological Change, and Labor Markets

A2 - Black, Stanley W.

PB - Springer UK

CY - Boston, MA

ER -