We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … - determine wages and no differences in the pay gap are observed between male- and female-owned firms. …

earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a …' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external …

The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we confirm that this relationship exists for Germany as well. More importantly, we shed light … behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for different …

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …

The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size?wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because …

-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for …

-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) die Rolle der Nutzung von Computern am Arbeitsplatz als Determinante der Lohnstruktur in Deutschland untersucht …In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany …) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did NOT remain stable and although …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …

spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self …