Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment: Germany vs. The Us

By Richard B. Freeman, R. Schettkat. 2001

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms (2008, unknown): “1”
• The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years (2007, unknown): “In addition, the literature suggests that there is a payoff to academic skills in the labour market (Murnane et al., 1995; Freeman and Schettkat, 2001), and these skills are presumably developed in school.”
• The effects of Labour Market Reforms upon Unemployment and Income Inequalities: an agent based model (2018, unknown): “Strengthening the latter results, Devroye and Freeman (2001) find that skill dispersion explains only 7% of the cross-country differences in inequality.”
• Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality of Earnings across Advanced Countries? NBER Working Paper Series. (2001, unknown): “6 In Germany, there is virtually no difference among the test scores of the employed, the unemployed, and nonlabor force participants while in the US the differences are large (Freeman and Schettkat, 2000).”
• Innovation and skill dynamics: a life-cycle approach (2015, unknown): “Also consistent with this is the evidence of a relatively fatter tail in the right-hand of the US skill distribution (Freeman and Schettkat, 2001).17 Likewise it may be that only high-end skills, like those acquired in top universities, are crucial for innovation in phases where the scope for…”
• Upgrading or Polarization? Occupational Change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, 1990-2008 (2010, unknown): “Variations are explained by differences in the evolution and characteristics of labour supply (Nickell and Bell, 1996; Freeman and Schettkat, 2001).”
• Skills Mismatch in the Labor Market (2003, unknown): “Many fewer in the older group actually finished high school, but a significant gap remains even after controlling for educational attainment (Smith 1995, p. 214; Freeman & Schettkat 2001; but see OECD & Stat.”
• Skills at work, 1986 to 2006 (2007, unknown): “(1997); Freeman and Schettkatt (2001) Objective; international comparisons sometimes possible Narrow range of skills; expensive to administer.”
• Unionisation structures and innovation incentives a (2004, unknown): “…studies, which consistently report lower wage dispersion for countries with centralised wage bargaining, as in Scandinavia, and much higher wage dispersion for economies with decentralised wage setting systems, as e.g., in Japan and North America (see Freeman, 1988; Freeman and Schettkat, 2000).”