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Relative wage positions and quit behavior: new evidence from linked employer-employee data
Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265925
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Adjustment of deferred compensation schemes, fairness concerns, and hiring of older workers
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
Hutchens (1986, Journal of Labor Economics 4(4), pp. 439-457) argues that deferred compensation schemes impose fixed-costs to firms and, therefore, they employ older workers but prefer to hire younger workers. This paper shows that deferred compensation can be a recruitment barrier even without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265947
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Adjustment of Deferred Compensation Schemes, Fairness Concerns, and Hiring of Older Workers
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
Hutchens (1986, Journal of Labor Economics 4(4), pp. 439-457) argues that deferred compensation schemes impose fixed-costs to firms and, therefore, they employ older workers but prefer to hire younger workers. This paper shows that deferred compensation can be a recruitment barrier even without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514739
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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621684
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Differences in the earnings distribution of self- and dependent employed German men: evidence from a quantile regression decomposition analysis
Braakmann, Nils - 2007
dependent employment and using quantile regression decompositions we find that the earnings differential over the distribution … employment. Finally, the observed earnings advantage for the self-employed at the top of the earnings distribution is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265151
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Physical attractiveness, employment and earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286612
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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings
Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003028
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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
ABSTRACT: While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of … the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we … firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526861
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Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294492
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Die Berufserfahrung in Vollzeit erklärt den Gender Pay Gap bei Führungskräften maßgeblich
Holst, Elke; Marquardt, Anne - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 85 (2018) 30/31, pp. 669-678
Frauen verdienen in Deutschland durchschnittlich immer noch weniger als Männer. Dies gilt auch und sogar verstärkt für …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878019