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The gender wage gap : does a gender gap in reservation wages play a part?
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2014
This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379936
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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on
Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003
We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274497
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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2011
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274689
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313919
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2014
few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380863
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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
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Home-ownership, unemployed's job search behavior and post-unemployment outcomes
Caliendo, Marco; Gielen, Anne C.; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2015
Although home-ownership has been shown to restrict geographic labor mobility and to affect job search behavior of … restricted mobility by more intensive (more search channels or applications) or different (more active or informal) search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510001
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The return to labor market mobility : an evaluation of relocation assistance for the unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2015
In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates … on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other hand. This is somewhat surprising and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295550
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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839263
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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2011
wage and search effort varies considerably among the groups considered. -- immigrants ; policy evaluation ; reservation … wage ; search effort ; expectations ; unemployment duration ; program evaluation ; active labor market policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152789