Skills, Wages, and Employment in East and West Germany /

Disaggregated data from 30 two-digit manufacturing industries in the east and west parts of unified Germany are used to estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east, and for unskilled labor. The former result contradi...

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Hlavní autor: Funke, Michael
Další autoři: FitzRoy, Felix
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/004
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF
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