Skill supply, supervision requirements and unemployment of low‐skilled labor
BP2-STS
- Falkinger, Josef University of Zurich
- Grossmann, Volker ORCID University of Zurich
- 2001
Published in:
- International Journal of Manpower. - Emerald. - 2001, vol. 22, no. 1/2, p. 69-82
English
This paper presents a model with flexible wages in which unemployment of low‐skilled labor is possible in equilibrium, whereas high‐skilled workers are fully employed. Thus, the model can explain why even in countries with flexible labor markets and full employment of skilled labor an employment problem exists at the bottom of the skill spectrum. The model is used to evaluate the impact of technological change and increased skill supply on the employment of low‐skilled workers. It is shown that a switch to technologies with higher skill requirements unambiguously leads to a rise in unemployment of low‐skilled workers. An increase in the supply of high‐skilled labor has a positive effect on the employment level of low‐skilled labor.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
- Department
- Département d'économie politique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
- License
- Rights reserved
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1108/01437720110386395
- ISSN 0143-7720
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/322686
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