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Expertise zur Entwicklung der Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2012

In Deutschland ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten ein deutlicher Anstieg der Lohnungleichheit zu beobachten, der sich bis … Darstellung und Diskussion der Entwicklung der Lohnungleichheit in Deutschland auf Basis der Ergebnisse von einschlägigen … Migration nach Deutschland und des internationalen Handels behandelt werden konnten. …

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...

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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions : Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Busch, Anne - 2011

Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …

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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …

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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke J. - 2011

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …

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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings

Pfeifer, Christian - 2011

Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...

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What Explains the Decline in Wage Mobility in the German Low-Wage Sector?

Aretz, Bodo - 2012

In this paper, we study how wage mobility in the low-wage sector has changed in western Germany between 1984 and 2004 …

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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...

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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium Across the Wage Distribution

Doorley, Karina - 2012

. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …

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