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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using linked employer–employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we find that intensified competition significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904383
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we find that intensified competition significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954440
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Firm leadership and the gender pay gap: Do active owners discriminate more than hired managers?
Hirsch, Boris; Mueller, Steffen - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Auf Grundlage eines großen kombinierten Firmen-Beschäftigten-Datensatzes untersuchen wir Unterschiede im unerklärten geschlechtsspezifischen Lohndifferential zwischen eigentümer- und managergeführten Betrieben für Deutschland. Wir stellen die Hypothese auf, dass eigentümergeführte...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764625
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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family … background, working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender earnings gap, suggesting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980674
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we find that intensified competition significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980678
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Seniority in Germany: New Evidence on Returns to Tenure for Male Full-time Workers
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This study uses recent data taken from the German Socioeconomic Panel (2002-2006) to evaluate the extent of and heterogeneity in returns to tenure for men in East and West Germany, employed in both the private and the public sector. We find significantly different wage patterns in East- and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005697851
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A breakdown of residual wage inequality in Germany
Ehrl, Philipp - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The present paper applies several regression-based decomposition methods to analyze the impact of region-, worker-, firm- and sector-specific determinants on the wage level and the continuous increase in wage inequality between 1995 and 2007 in Germany. In contrast to prior studies, more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010776484
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Spatial effects of open borders on the Czech labour market
Moritz, Michael - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Hardly noticed in Western Europe the fall of the Iron Curtain had also ef-fects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern Euro-pean Countries (CEEC). I analyse whether during the undoubtedly increasing integration of markets the Czech border region close to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615511
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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus - Eine Analyse von Ausmaß, Begründung und Heterogenität von Lohnsteigerungen
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko (1987) and Topel (1991)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836244
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The East German Wage Structure after Transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control for hitherto neglected biases. We compare the life cycle structure of East and West German wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991802