Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21455 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 784
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The unemployment rise in EU countries has been particularly strong for low-skilled workers. This observation has often been explained in terms of biased technical change and relative wage rigidities. More attention has been paid recently to an alternative mechanism, the crowding-out of low-skilled workers by over-qualified workers. The objective of this paper is both methodological and empirical. We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with two types of jobs and two types of workers and with search unemployment. The model is calibrated and simulated to examine the interactions between the ?skill bias? and ?crowdingout? mechanisms. When such interactions are accounted for, the model reproduces quite well the observed unemployment changes.
Subjects: 
skill bias
equilibrium search unemployment
ladder effect
crowding out
over-education
JEL: 
E24
J23
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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