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This paper provides first-time evidence on the magnitude and determinants of regional differences in the gender pay gap (GPG) in Germany. Using a comprehensive data set of all full-time employees, we conduct Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions for Germany and its regions to explain the regional...
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Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
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total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …
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this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … went. Using and merging two large micro data sets, we account for the decrease of unemployment by computing inflows and … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …
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During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany has experienced a decrease in the demand for the low skilled. Possible explanations for this trend are investigated in this study for West Germany (1994- 1997) using a unique linked employer-employee panel data set for Germany....
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(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
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We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from … 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect … includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate into three components considering changes in the workforce's age …
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and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms of the unemployment benefit system such as in Germany intended to … effects on the matching efficiency of a number of ALMPs, but the effects partly differ between high and low unemployment …
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instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …
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