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Overconfidence and gender differences in wage expectations
Briel, Stephanie; Osikominu, Aderonke; Pfeifer, Gregor; … - 2020
We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected starting salaries using elicited beliefs of prospective university students in Germany. According to our results, female students have lower wage expectations and are less overconfident than their male counterparts....
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The impact of life-course developments on pensions in the NDC systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and point system in Germany
Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka; Góra, Marek; Kotowska, … - 2018
Old-age pensions in the NDC systems reflect the accumulated lifetime labour income. Interrupted careers and differences …-age pensions in the future. We argue that the pension systems' design modifications that weaken the link between contribution and … benefits would not solve the challenge of providing adequate old-age pensions to people with interrupted careers. On the …
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How and why the gender pension gap in urban China decreased between 1988 and 2018
Gustafsson, Björn; Zhan, Peng; Jia, Hanrui - 2023
In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are important because pension rights and amounts are based on labor force participation and wages. However, as this study demonstrates, despite the rise in gender differences in the...
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Long-term effects of individual placement and support services for disability benefits recipients with severe mental illnesses
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Spijkerman, Marcel; Zwinkels, Wim - 2020
This paper examines a broad set of short- and long-term impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for disability benefit recipients with severe mental disabilities. IPS is a specific intervention that first aims to place an individual in employment and subsequently trains the worker on...
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Gender wage and longevity gaps and the design of retirement systems
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, … - 2021
We study the design of pension benefits for male and female workers. Women live longer than men but have a lower wage. Individuals can be single or live in couples who pool their incomes. Social welfare is utilitarian but an increasing concave transformation of individuals' lifetime utilities...
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Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards
Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Koning, Pierre; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2023
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using administrative data on applications to the Dutch disability insurance program. We find that discretion is...
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Gender wage gap : a semi-parametric approach with sample selection correction
Picchio, Matteo; Mussida, Chiara - 2010
Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of densities in the presence of covariates which...
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
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Immigrant heterogeneity and the earnings distribution in the United Kingdom and United States : new evidence from a panel data quantile regression analysis
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Lamarche, Carlos - 2010
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling for individual heterogeneity. No previous papers have simultaneously considered these factors. We...
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data : an application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - 2012
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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