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Gender-specific occupational segregation, glass ceiling effects, and earnings in managerial positions : results of a fixed effects model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826704
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Remittances and gender : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011
reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826713
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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391706
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Is job stability declining in Germany? : evidence from count data models
Winkelmann, Rainer - 1998
The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000995782
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Immigrant labor and workplace safety
Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998
determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000995785
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Occupational mobility of ethnic migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001408887
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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001402343
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Learning efficiency of economics students
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268679
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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform
Million, Andreas - 1998
One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269123
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630299