Einfacharbeit in der Krise? / Low-Skilled Work in Crisis?

Bellmann Lutz () and Jens Stegmaier
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Bellmann Lutz: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Regensburger Straße 104, D-90478 Nürnberg

Arbeit, 2011, vol. 20, issue 3, 188-205

Abstract: Employees in jobs that require no or only low skills (low-skilled work) are considered to be a problematic group of the labour market. Employing the IAB-Establishment Panel this study analyzes the development of low-skilled work and examines the impact of the 2008/2009 global economic crisis. The results show that the development of low-skilled work depends crucially on the economic sector. Further we apply difference-in-differences-estimators and find within those establishments affected by the economic crisis the number of employees in low-skilled work decreased by almost 10%. This contrasts to the decline of 3,3% in the number of persons who perform jobs which require vocational skills and qualifications.

Keywords: low-skilled worker; economic crisis; labour demand; Einfacharbeit; Geringqualifizierte; Wirtschaftskrise; Arbeitsnachfrage; low-skilled worker; economic crisis; labour demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2011-0305

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