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This book explores empirically for West Germany whether a decline in the relative demand for less skilled workers resulted in increased unemployment. Using up-to-date econometric techniques, a balanced mixture between descriptive evidence and structural estimation is provided, and there are various findings in the book which require a modification of the conventional wisdom about labor market trends in West Germany. Overall wage dispersion has...

Quantile regression has emerged as an essential statistical tool of contemporary empirical economics and biostatistics. Complementing classical least squares regression methods which are designed to estimate conditional mean models, quantile regression provides an ensemble of techniques for estimating families of conditional quantile models, thus offering a more complete view of the stochastic relationship among variables. This volume collects...

In a number of European economies youth unemployment has increased again to unexpected and unwanted levels. It has become one of the pressing labor market problems that many countries are currently facing. This special issue involves a collection of current research and new findings. The contributions improve our understanding of the determinants and economic consequences of youth unemployment and implications for policies to combat it

Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Special Issue on Labour Economics: Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- Hysteresis in Unemployment Rates? A Comparison between Germany and the US / Hassler, Uwe / Wolters, Jürgen -- Wage Adjustment Competitiveness and Unemployment - East Germany after Unification / Smolny, Werner -- Oil and Unemployment in Germany / Löschel, Andreas / Oberndorfer, Ulrich -- Living Standards in an Aging German...

Quantile regression has emerged as an essential statistical tool of contemporary empirical economics and biostatistics. Complementing classical least squares regression methods which are designed to estimate conditional mean models, quantile regression provides an ensemble of techniques for estimating families of conditional quantile models, thus offering a more complete view of the stochastic relationship among variables. This volume collects...