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The feminization of occupations and change in wages: A panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475155
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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages: A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185789
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Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unication education variable in the BASiD data set
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016
Using combined data from the German Pension Insurance and the Federal Employment Agency (BASiD), this study proposes different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on education-related periods that are creditable for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441089
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601035
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The working class left behind? The class gap in life satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland over the last decades
Lipps, Oliver; Oesch, Daniel - 2017
The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … gap did not follow a clear time trend, but remained basically constant. In Germany, differences in unemployment risks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776432
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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : Evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohland, Laura; … - In: European economic review : EER 132 (2021), pp. 1-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012693271
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Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model
Blömer, Maximilian J.; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018
unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878536
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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018
the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job … search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863973
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Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around?: A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Oesch, Daniel; Lipps, Oliver - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss … if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience …? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220611
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Reforming social welfare in Germany : an applied general equilibrium analysis
Boeters, Stefan - 2003
reform on wages and unemployment. The simulation results show that general equilibrium wage reactions tend to mitigate labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428601