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Educational attaintment and returns to education in Germany : an analysis by subject of degree, gender and region

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2005

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany … degree subjects in West than in East Germany, especially for women. …

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Gender earnings gap in German firms : the impact of firm characteristics and institutions

Heinze, Anja (contributor); Wolf, Elke (contributor) - 2006

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314702

Explaining women's success : technological change and the skill content of women's work

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); … - 2007

. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …

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Gender differences in business success of German start-up firms

Gottschalk, Sandra; Niefert, Michaela - 2011

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How to limit discrimination? : analyzing the effects of innovative workplace practices on intra-firm gender wage gaps using linked employer-employee data

Wolf, Elke (contributor); Heinze, Anja (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides a new approach to assess the impact of organisational changes fostering employee involvement, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that innovative human resource practices tend to limit the...

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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? : assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the …

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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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Returns to education in West Germany : an empirical assessment

Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Gender wage gap in West Germany : how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German full-time employees in the private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the...

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