Can Skill-Biased Technological Change Compress Unemployment Rate Differentials Across Education Groups?

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. Effects of skill-biased shocks can be related to inequality in the distribution of wealth.

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Year of publication:	2000
Authors:	Decreuse, B.
Institutions:	Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)
Subject:	EDUCATION \| UNEMPLOYMENT \| PRODUCTIVITY

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Series:	G.R.E.Q.A.M..
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	21 pages
Classification:	J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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