Have the relative employment prospects for the low-skilled deteriorated after all?

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-82

  Røed, Knut ^a   Nordberg, Morten ^a  

^a Frisch Centre for Economic Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

Relative unemployment rates; Skill biased technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742306451     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-003-0120-y     Document Type: Review

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