The Changing Skill Structure of Employment in German Manufacturing: A Peek Inside the Industry Black Box
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Globalization, Technological Change, and Labor Markets. ed. / Stanley W. Black. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1998. p. 59-87.
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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 New York
CY - New York, NY
ER -