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Intra-firm wage inequality and firm performance : first evidence from German linked employer-employee-data
Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008
Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity. This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on this subject. We combine German employer-employee-data for the years 1995-2005 with inequality measures using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003640187
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Fields of training, plant characteristics and the gender wage gap in entry wages among skilled workers : evidence from German administrative data
Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security record. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for both the training plant and the current employer, results from standard decomposition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003727428
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Effective working hours and wages : the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003918728
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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