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A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975 - 1995. The …
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In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...
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, however, do not contribute to a further closing of the gender wage gap. …
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private than in the public sector. Our test results show that, contrary to the public sector, there are no gender differences …
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reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and … female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy … narrowed the gender wage gap by more than 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, we do not find evidence for wage compression within …
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To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply …
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This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany, a period when significant changes in the educational composition of the workforce took place. Based on regression analysis and samples of male and female workers from the Socio-Economic...
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We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and focused on its interaction with occupational segregation. We found evidence of strong occupational segregation, which we mainly attribute to institutional factors but also to...
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