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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare
Riedel, Lukas - 2024
, however, do not contribute to a further closing of the gender wage gap. …
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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women
Ilieva, Boryana - 2023
I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492126
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Do women expect wage cuts for part-time work?
Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2020
Wage expectations for full- and part-time employment are key for understanding the labor supply decisions of women. However, whether women expect different wages between part-time and full-time work is not fully understood. Using German survey data, I quantify the expected full-time/part-time...
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The gender gap in lifetime earnings : the role of parenthood
Glaubitz, Rick; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Wetter, Miriam - 2022
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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Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? : evidence from Austria
Gulyas, Andreas; Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012642660
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Gender wage differences in West Germany : a cohort analysis
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428347
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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of part-time penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from -28.3% to -7.2% compared to full-time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340857
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Working more for less : part-time penalties across the working hours distribution?
Günther, Tom; Schneider, Ulrich C.; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian - 2023
We use German administrative and survey data to investigate the heterogeneity of parttime penalties in hourly wages and growth rates. Exploiting tax reforms for identification, we find substantial heterogeneity in part-time wage penalties from −28.3% to −7.2% compared to full-time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343107
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The evolution of educational wage differentials for women and men, from 1996 to 2019
Ordemann, Jessica; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619002
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Biased wage expectations and female labor supply
Blesch, Maximilian; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Haan, Peter; … - 2023
Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495723