Arbeitspapier
Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour market equilibria could arise. Skill-biased technological change induces training needs for the employees willing to work in the skilled labour market and increases relative skill demand. In a simple general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment arises.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 00-37
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Thema
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Mis-match unemployment
training costs
skill biased technological change
Labour supply
Arbeitslosigkeit
Qualifikation
Humankapital
Technischer Fortschritt
Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte
Weiterbildung
Insider-Outsider-Modell
Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte
Bildungsfinanzierung
Potenzieller Wettbewerb
Theorie
Vergleich
USA
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Muysken, Joan
Zwick, Thomas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- (wo)
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Mannheim
- (wann)
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2000
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Muysken, Joan
- Zwick, Thomas
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Entstanden
- 2000