Biased technological shocks, relative wage rigidities and low-skilled unemployment

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 330-352

  Pierrard, Olivier ^a   Sneessens, Henri R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPEAN UNION; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; MODELING; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44949246375     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: 14679485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2008.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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