Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33213 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1780
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses matched employee-employer LIAB data to provide panel estimates of the structure of labor demand in Germany, 1993-2002, distinguishing between highly skilled, skilled, and unskilled labor and between the manufacturing and service sectors. Reflecting current preoccupations, our demand analysis seeks also to accommodate the impact of technology and trade in addition to wages. The bottom-line interests are to provide elasticities of the demand for unskilled (and other) labor that should assist in short-run policy design and to identify the extent of skill biases or otherwise in trade and technology.
Subjects: 
labor demand
own-wage/cross-wage elasticities
trade
technology
organizationalchange
linked employee-employer data
panel estimates
JEL: 
F15
J23
J31
O33
F15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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