Can skill-biased technological change compress unemployment rate differentials across education groups?

Bruno Decreuse

Journal of Population Economics, 2001, vol. 14, issue 4, 667 pages

Abstract: Our aim is to explain why the pattern of relative unemployment rates by education groups was non monotonic in most of the OECD countries. In a two-sector matching model, a simple unexpected productivity shock biased against unskilled labor can replicate the observed dynamics. Demographic effects of skill-biased shocks can be related to inequality in the distribution of wealth.

Keywords: Education duration; matching unemployment; demographic effects of technological change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-12-21
Note: Received: 27 April 1999/Accepted: 08 June 2000
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