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A Note on Changes in the Earnings and Unemployment Structures in Spain: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Journal
CESifo economic studies
ISSN
1610-241X
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2004
Author(s)
Puhani, Patrick  
Abstract
not available in German This note tests whether the extraordinary rise in Spanish unemployment in the 1980s can be traced back to rigidities in the earnings structure in the face of relative net demand shocks against the unskilled (this claim is also known as the ‘Krugman hypothesis'). I can establish that youth joblessness is key to the Spanish unemployment problem, but sampling procedures in the data set make it impossible to track the youth unemployment problem across time in a satisfactory way. Even though high youth unemployment is consistent with the Krugman hypothesis, substantial skill upgrading of the Spanish labour force in the 1980s explains why the low education groups did not experience an increase in relative unemployment.
Language
English
Keywords
wage
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Publisher
Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Publisher place
München
Number
50
Start page
299
End page
317
Pages
19
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/68833
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Eprints ID
14724

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