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Marginal taxes : a good or a bad for wages? : the incidence of the structure of income and labor taxes on wages
Rattenhuber, Pia - 2012
Empirical evidence so far found ambiguous results for the direction of effect of marginal income tax rates on employee remuneration. Based on the GSOEP data from 2002 through 2008 this study analyzes the impact of the marginal tax load on the employee side on the wage rate also allowing average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580153
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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity : it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie (contributor) - 2008
wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried …-employment sector that offers better opportunities and monetary success. Self-employed women in Germany fare well and most importantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776591
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Dynamics of earnings and hourly wages in Germany
Myck, Michał; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - 2009
2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts … permanent component which has driven the strong expansion of cross-sectional inequality during the 2000s in Germany. -- Variance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003885106
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A detailed decomposition of changes in wage inequality in reunified post-transition Germany 1999 - 2006
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by … coefficient effect maintained a positive influence in both the western region, eastern region and in reunified Germany alike …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824279
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September 11th and the earnings of muslims in Germany : the moderating role of education and firm size
Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010
Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the relative earnings of Muslims outside the US. However, the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824465
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825071
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International trade and individual labour market perspectives : a micro-level analysis of German manufacturing workers
Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825547
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Changes in the gender wage gap in Germany during a period of rising wage inequality 1999 - 2006 : was it discrimination in the returns to human capital?
Al-Farhan, Usamah Fayez - 2010
Germany during the period 1999 - 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825587
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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens : geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes
Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010 - Vorläufige Fassung
The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of ¿atypical¿ employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826582
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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