Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany☆
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We thank Martin Biewen, Davide Cantoni, Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Christina Gathmann, Boris Hirsch, Iourii Manovskii, Kjell Salvanes, Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Uwe Sunde, Andreas Steinmeyer, participants of the 20th BGPE Research Workshop in Passau, the ZEW Conference “Occupations, Skills, and the Labor Market” in Mannheim, the SOLE Conference 2016 in Seattle (WA), and the ESPE Conference 2016 in Berlin for valuable comments and helpful suggestions. We are also indebted to Uta Schönberg for kindly sharing programming code with us. We further thank Javier Rodriguez and Simon Bensnes for their support during project’s initial phase at the Barcelona GSE. Albrecht Glitz gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (through the Severo Ochoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D, SEV-2015-0563) and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (through the National Programme for the Promotion of Talent and Its Employability, the Ramón y Cajal grants, MINECO-RYC-2015-18806, and Project No. ECO2017-83668-R (AEI/FEDER, UE)). He also thanks the German Research Foundation (DFG) for funding his Heisenberg Fellowship (GL 811/1-1) and Alexandra Spitz-Oener for hosting him at Humboldt University Berlin. Daniel Wissmann acknowledges funding through the International Doctoral Program “Evidence-Based Economics” of the Elite Network of Bavaria and the LMU Forschungsfonds. This study uses the factually anonymous Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (version 1975-2010). Data access was provided via a Scientific Use File supplied by the Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the German Federal Employment Agency (BA) at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Project No. 101003.