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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
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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...
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mothers. Hourly wages, however, increase with WfH take-up among fathers, but not among mothers unless they change employer …
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We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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employees. This paper demonstrates that also a change in outside wage options drives wages in continuing jobs. The authors use … years after the reform, the wages of employees in deregulated crafts increased by five percent less than wages of employees …
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We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany …. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining …
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less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany …
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The German apprenticeship training system is generally acknowledged to solve the youth unemployment problem prevalent in many European countries by providing on-the-job training that often leads into subsequent regular employment within the training firms. Little attention has been paid to those...
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inequality in Germany has increased very little in the 1980's, if at all. It is shown ·that the marked increase in earnings …
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. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … ('selection neglect bias'). Based on representative survey data from Germany, I document substantial misperceptions of the part … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
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