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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Funke, Michael
Other Authors: FitzRoy, Felix
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1995.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1995/004
Online Access:Full text available on IMF