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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State – The Case of Germany
Mueller, Kai-Uwe - 2014
examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060046
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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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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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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391647
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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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Potential effects of statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap : a simulation-based study for Germany
Boll, Christina; Hüning, Hendrik; Leppin, Julian Sebastian - 2015
newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287026
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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
The author uses large-scale German survey data for the years 2009, 2011 and 2013 in order to analyze the nexus between the individual perception of being unfairly paid and measures for quantity and quality of sleep, namely, hours of sleep during workweek and during weekend, happiness with sleep,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334499
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Ökonometrische Verfahren zur Messung von Lohndiskriminierung : eine theoretische und empirische Studie
Hundertmark, Carsten - 2013
In Deutschland liegt der durchschnittliche Lohn einer weiblichen Arbeitskraft unter dem einer männlichen Arbeitskraft …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747770
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Distributional effects of a minimum wage in a welfare state : the case of Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241628
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014
capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that … signifiantly lower returns than human capital obtained in Germany. We further find evidence for heterogeneity in the returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380588