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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search

Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

model. -- Gender differences ; job search ; displaced workers ; wage differences ; discrimination …

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The evolution of the early career gender wage gap

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

In this paper we investigate when the male-female wage differential arises: Does it evolve over the early career or does it exist right from entry into first employment onwards? For the analysis we use new administrative longitudinal data and focus on the early careers of skilled workers in...

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Gender differences in entry wages and early career wages

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

In this paper we investigate the evolution of the gender wage gap over early careers of skilled workers in Germany using administrative longitudinal data. Advantages of the data for this type of analysis are that we observe complete work and skill accumulation histories from the beginning for up...

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Do gays shy away from competition? : do lesbians compete too much?

Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015

It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...

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The determination of wages and the gender wage gap : a survey

Kunze, Astrid - 2000

In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage regression models. This aspect has been of great importance in the literature chiefly for two...

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Endophilia or exophobia : beyond discrimination

Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a … endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …

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The employment effects of a wage subsidy for the young during an economic recovery

Kunze, Astrid; Palczyńska, Marta; Magda, Iga - 2023

effects differed between men and women. The study employs a large population administrative data set from the unemployment …

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Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas

Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022

This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board-director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...

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The flipside of comparative payment schemes

Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna - 2013

Comparative payment schemes and tournament-style promotion mechanisms are ubiquitous in the work place. We test experimentally whether they have a negative impact on the willingness to cooperate. Participants first perform in a simple task and then participate in a public goods game. The payment...

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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations: causal evidence from a mentoring intervention

Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...

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