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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth
Ejrnaes, Mette - 2012
identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111832
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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among the group of workers aged 30 or below....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949376
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Hourly Wage Rate and Taxable Labor Income Responsiveness to Changes in Marginal Tax Rates
Blomquist, Soren - 2009
Recently, a voluminous literature estimating the taxable income elasticity has emerged as an important field in empirical public economics. However, to a large extent it is still unknown how the hourly wage rate, an important component of taxable income, reacts to changes in marginal tax rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160042
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054013
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - CESifo - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877976
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The Gender Wage Gap in Developed Countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951824
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Peer Effects in the Workplace
Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2021
workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … — which links the average permanent productivity of workers’ peers to their wages — circumvents the reflection problem and … accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average, we find only small peer effects in wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315716
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Multitasking and Wages
Goerlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315748
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The East German Wage Structure after Transition
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021
life cycle structure in East and West German wages for fulltime employed men in the private sector. The patterns in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316418