Empirical work has been limited in its ability to directly study whether skill requirements in
the workplace have been rising and whether these changes have been related to …

Population ageing and pension reform will have profound effects on international capital
markets. In order to quantify these effects, we develop a computational general equilibrium …

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the US and Germany
but the trends have been different. Wage inequality increased along the entire wage …

Projected demographic changes in industrialized and develo** countries vary in extent
and timing but will reduce the share of the population in working age everywhere …

This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational
wage premia and the distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is …

Starting from the observation of significant within‐industry skill‐upgrading, this paper
analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for manual workers …

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on
samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984 to 2005. Real gross hourly …

In this paper, we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the
period 1981–1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling …

Labor market participation rates of West German females have risen during the last
decades, whereas participation rates of males have declined or remained stable …

This book has three parts: scientific background, design, and results. We begin by
describing the intellectual background of the SAVE survey and the strategic selections of …