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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
participation decision through different individual preferences from the indirect effects through wages. We can show that …
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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097794
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
lower wages than comparable full-time workers. The results further point out that more experienced women, who accumulated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097898
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Lower wages for less hours? A simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany
Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly a¤ected by the working hours. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098354
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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269119
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Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756425
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097534
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098419
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Arbeitszeiten im Wandel: Welche Rolle spielt die Veränderung der Wirtschaftsstruktur?
Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
In dieser Analyse wird auf Basis der Mikrozensen aus den Jahren 1991, 1993 und 1995 die zunehmende Verbreitung der Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung in der Bundesrepublik nachgezeichnet. Anschließend wird untersucht, inwieweit diese auf die Veränderung der Wirtschaftsstruktur zurückzuführen ist....
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