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Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the Structural Earnings Study merged with occupational task...
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formation of reservation wages. Building on the theoretical reasoning of compensating differentials proposing that the labor … market compensates higher wage risk with higher wages, this study investigates whether the gender gap in wage expectations … school graduates in which we elicited information on the entire distribution of expected wages, this study documents that …
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problem of the tax variables with regard to wages. Estimations in first differences show that marginal taxes overall have a … negative impact on wages. But this effect is not uniform along the wage distribution; while the negative effect of marginal tax …
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into fulltime employment. However, we show that selection-corrected wages of male and female workers at the lower half of …, have given place to a small but rising selection bias in male observed wages. In the upper half of the wage distribution …
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-time wages have grown increasingly apart, leading to a substantial raw part-time wage penalty. Using quantile regression methods …
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differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically … lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …
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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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introduction, the distributional literature for Germany has focusedon hourly wages and earnings or relied on ex-ante simulations …
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effects are sensitive to measurement errors in wages, the representativeness of the sample with respect to several types of …
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-time work - 7% on average - full-time workers expect no effect on current wages when switching to part-time, on average …
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