The Changing Skill Structure of Employment in German Manufacturing: A Peek Inside the Industry Black Box

John T. Addison; Joachim Wagner

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4965-9_4

The Changing Skill Structure of Employment in German Manufacturing: A Peek Inside the Industry Black Box

John T. Addison
, Joachim Wagner

George-Washington-Universität

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Abstract

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.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Titel	Globalization, Technological Change, and Labor Markets
Redakteure/-innen	Stanley W. Black
Seitenumfang	29
Erscheinungsort	New York, NY
Herausgeber (Verlag)	Springer-Verlag New York
Erscheinungsdatum	01.01.1998
Seiten	59-87
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4613-7253-0, 978-0-7923-8318-5
ISBN (elektronisch)	978-1-4615-4965-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4965-9_4
Publikationsstatus	Erschienen - 01.01.1998

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