Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …

-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … - determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms. …

pay gap than women on higher management levels. The results are similar for East and West Germany, despite the lower … gender pay gap and more gender egalitarian social norms in East Germany. From a policy perspective, we conclude that …

principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …

. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … (’selection neglect bias’). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …

conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which affects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …

wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried … salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …. However, if self-employed businesswomen went into salaried jobs, their wages would decline, suggesting that it is the self-employment …

undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences strong deregulation, deunionization and a shift in employment from the …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …