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, about one quarter to one third of the … difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men whereas there are no …

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 …

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 …