plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …

gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men. -- job separations ; gender ; gender pay gap …

suggest that employment growth is dampened by firms avoiding to exceed thresholds. In order to minimize these transaction …

reduce wages by 0.5 percentand employment by 1.6 percent, reflecting monopsonistic exploitation. In line with per …-fect competition, sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightlyconcentrated labor markets. This effect weakens …, theresults lend empirical support to the monopsony argument, implying that conventionalminimum wage effects on employment conceal …

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack … become self-employed and those ending up in paid employment. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employed ; Germany …

plays a role, highlighting potential shirking and moral hazard problems in paid employment. …

men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One … implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …