Kwalifikacje i bezrobocie strukturalne w obliczu zmian technologicznych

• Autorzy: Thomas Apolte

Warianty tytułu

Skill-biased Technical Change and Structural Unemployment in Europe

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

Pierwsza część artykułu dotyczy różnicy płac i bezrobocia w Europie i w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Następnie przeanalizowano wpływ zmian technologicznych na zatrudnienie i relatywne płace. Ostatnia część zawiera rozważania dotyczące sztywnego rynku pracy i zmian technologicznych.

EN

In the introductory part of the paper the author discusses, generally and adopting a simple labor market model, the issue of remarkable differences between the US and UK on the one hand, and most continental European countries on the other, as far as employment/unemployment levels and wage structures are concerned. Particularly, he proves that the rigidity of European labor markets and their inability to adjust to structural changes in labor market consisting in outward shift in demand for skilled labor and inward shift for unskilled labor, especially by increasing differences in wages (as it was the case in the US and UK), was a main reason for growing unemployment and decreasing employment level over the last decades in continental Europe. In the following sections, more specific technical issues of interdependencies between technological change, employment and relative wages, as well as the impacts of labor market rigidities on technology shifts, have been discussed with the help of various labor market and production functions models. It includes, among other things, addressing the issue why a pretty common policy of reducing the unemployment rate by the reduction of labor supply (e.g. by lowering the retirement age) has turned out to be ineffective in most European countries. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

PL

Bezrobocie; Płace; Kwalifikacje zawodowe

EN

Unemployment; Wages; Professional skills

• Czasopismo: Prace Naukowe Akademii Ekonomicznej we Wrocławiu
• Rocznik: 2006
• Numer: nr 1138 Problemy zatrudnienia i rynku pracy w Polsce i w Unii Europejskiej
• Strony: 43--57

Twórcy

autor

Thomas Apolte

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