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When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firms and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values of...

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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since … international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a metaanalysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …

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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …

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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Fersterer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...

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Who is on the Rise in Austria: Wage Mobility and Mobility Risk

Raferzeder, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...

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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps: An International Study

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Weichselbaumer, Doris; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …

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