Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63225
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2000,19
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
With the aid of Norwegian register data, the paper investigates whether or not the relative unemployment propensity for the low-skilled has increased during the 1990’s. Two alternative notions of ‘low skills’ are employed; i) low education, and ii) low previous earnings, conditioned on education and work experience. According to the standard education-based measure, we find that unemployment propensity has not at all developed unfavourably for the low-skilled. According to the earnings based measure, it has. We uncover a steady and significant deterioration of employment prospects for persons with particularly low previous earnings relative to others with similar formal qualifications.
Subjects: 
Skill-biased technical change
relative unemployment rates
JEL: 
J31
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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