The Collapse in Demand for the Unskilled and Unemployment Across the Oecd

Nickell, Stephen; Bell, Brian

doi:10.1093/oxrep/11.1.40

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“…As regards labour demand, rising demand for skilled labour occurred throughout the industrialised economies (Nickell and Bell, 1995) foreign owned firms and a quarter of all employment was in US owned firms (Table 5). The bulk of this employment in foreign owned firms was in the high-technology sector, broadly defined.…”

Section: Figure 1 Labour Supply By Educational Attainmentmentioning

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Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland

2002

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Section: Figure 1 Labour Supply By Educational Attainmentmentioning

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Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland

2002

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“…The results of our simple test on the existence of crowding out are shown in Table 7 which indicates that relatively fewer workers with an intermediate and higher education were employed at a simple job (level fl/f2) in the low employment years 1993and 1994than in 1995and 1996.7 In 1993.9% of the workers at simple jobs had followed an intermediate or higher education and in 1994 this fraction was 7.3% while in 1995 and 1996, respectively 8.2% and 9.9% of the workers at simple jobs had completed at least an intermediate education. Thus in the high employment years, the average education level at simple jobs seems to be somewhat higher.…”

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Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers

Gautier

Berg

Ours

et al. 2002

European Economic Review

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In The Netherlands, as in many countries: unemployment rates of lower educated workers are higher and more cyclical than unemployment rates of higher educated workers. In this paper we test whether this is caused by the fact that more highly educated individuals occupy simple jobs in cyclical downturns. We use a unique firm-worker dataset to investigate this hypothesis. In addition, we examine to what extent workers with more years of schooling earn higher wages than their less educated colleagues at the same job level in the same firm. We find that at one of the lower job complexity levels, the difference between schooling of the inflow and the outflow increases in cyclical downturns. At the same time, workers with surplus schooling earn somewhat lower wages at this job level. For the other job complexity levels we find no evidence for crowding out.

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“…But when u 1 … u 2 , the coefficient in equation (5) is less than u/? because the aggregate wage shock leads to a fall in the dispersion of the relative unemployment rates (see also Nickell and Bell, 1995). The difference however is not large if say u 1 =½ u 2 .…”

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European versus US Unemployment: Different Responses to Increased Demand for Skill? (1997)

Jackman¹,

Manacorda²,

Petrongolo³

1999

Tackling Unemployment

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According to Paul Krugman, "the European unemployment problem and the US inequality problem are two sides of the same coin". In other words, both continents have had the same shift in demand towards skill; in the US relative wages have adjusted and in Europe not.The implication of this hypothesis is that in Europe the unemployment rate for the unskilled will have risen but the unemployment rate for the skilled will have fallen. In fact it has risen.To investigate the hypothesis more systematically we develop an internally consistent model which allocates the change in a country's unemployment between that resulting from (a) shifts in relative demand for skill minus shifts in relative supply, (b) shifts in the relative intercepts of skilled and unskilled wage functions, (c) shifts in aggregate wage pressure. We show that the rise in British unemployment relative to the US since the 1970s is almost certainly due to shifts in aggregate wage pressure. Similarly for 5 other European countries the combination of (a) and (b) accounts for none of the increase in unemployment since the 1970s.

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The Collapse in Demand for the Unskilled and Unemployment Across the Oecd

Cited by 358 publications

References 12 publications

Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland

Earnings inequality, returns to education and immigration into Ireland

Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers

European versus US Unemployment: Different Responses to Increased Demand for Skill? (1997)

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