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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

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Rising wage inequality in Germany : increasing heterogeneity and changing selection into full-time work

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Lazzer, Jakob de - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are …

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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Schulze, Ute - 2009

literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show that the … changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task assignments … strongly work towards reducing wage inequality. The coefficient effect for personal characteristics works towards an increase …

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Does working at a start-up pay off?

Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2020

Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following individuals over ten years, we find huge and...

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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz … (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U … of trends in wage inequality differ strongly enough that technology effects alone cannot explain the empirical findings …

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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 … wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by real wage increases at the top of the wage distribution, but also … contribute strongly to the rise in wage inequality. Among these, the firm coefficients effect dominates, which is almost …

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? : a decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Vocational training and gender : wages and occupational mobility among young workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kunze, Astrid (contributor) - 2005

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make … higher wage paths through mobility. We furthermore investigate whether patterns have changed across cohorts during the period …, the gap is highest and it increases with experience. Third, occupational mobility is lower for women than for men and the …

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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...

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Low-wage careers : are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?

Mosthaf, Alexander; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2010

that upward wage mobility is higher for younger and better qualified low-wage earners, whereas women are substantially less … appears to be an important instrument for achieving wages above the low-wage threshold. -- Low-wage employment ; wage mobility …

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