Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …

and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment …Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into self-employment and a higher exit rate … in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …

for sample selection into full- and part-time employment. The estimated part-time gap is much lower than the raw gap …, sample selection into part-time employment goes from being positive at the beginning of the 1990s to disappearing by the end … the distribution of job tasks between full- and part-time employment …

-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …

-ante effects of the German tax reform 2000 and of two hypothetical flat tax scenarios on entries into and exits out of self-employment … structural microeconometric models of transitions into and out of self-employment. These structural models include an estimated … people from choosing self-employment. This is explained by the reduction of entrepreneurs' income risk through progressive …

development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits … into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the … parental self-employment …