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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and … exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental variable estimation. In our sample of recent immigrants, linear … endogeneity of naturalization most coefficients decline in magnitude and lose statistical significance: male immigrants' labor …

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Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction

Bossler, Mario - 2020

We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased during the first years of this period, it recently returned to its initial level, raising the question what the role of the German minimum wage introduction for this reversal...

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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2012

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...

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Is There a Union Wage Premium in Germany and Which Workers Benefit Most?

Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Schnabel, Claus - 2023

Using representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper finds a statistically significant union wage premium in Germany of almost three percent which is not simply a collective bargaining premium. Given that the union membership fee is typically about one percent of...

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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts … only to falling unemployment and is unaffected by rising unemployment …

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Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms : An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2021

implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …

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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms : A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2021

Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...

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