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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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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2005

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

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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.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...

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

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019

German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...

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Does working at a start-up pay off?

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

(un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …

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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 larger for females than for males, and...

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