Provision of public goods, voting and agglomerative bias

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Skill-biased technical change is identified as the driving force behind the changing skill composition in OECD countries rather than structural change. The finding is partly the result of the sectoral view taken. This paper suggests a different view which uses the production process as a starting point. The economy is divided into physica production, personal services, and intermediate services; these branches are again subdivided. Applying the resulting grid to German data from the Socio-economic Panel shows that a structural change in the production process is driving the skill composition of the German labor force.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Year: 1998 ; Kiel: Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
• Subject: Lokales öffentliches Gut ; Abwanderung und Widerspruch ; Ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie ; Räumliche Gleichgewichtstheorie ; Klubtheorie ; Agglomerationseffekt ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kopp, Andreas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW) ; ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 1998

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46996