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Gender wage differences in West Germany : a cohort analysis

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …

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Marriage, fertility, and cultural integration in Italy

Bisin, Alberto; Tura, Giulia - 2019

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Does immigration weaken natives’ support for the welfare state? : evidence from Germany

Stichnoth, Holger - 2010

Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...

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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries : company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Müller, Elisabeth - 2011

This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the "recruitment countries" of south and...

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EU enlargement and immigration

Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...

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Beyond the mean gender wage gap : decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression

Heinze, Anja - 2010

capital characteristics and the effect of firm characteristics in explaining the gender wage gap. Furthermore, I implement the … rent-sharing to a lesser extent than their male colleagues. This is the source of the largest part of the pay gap. Gender … differential. -- gender wage gap ; decomposition ; quantile regression …

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The changing life cycle pattern in female employment : a comparison of Germany and the UK

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2002

formation. In addition, employment rates may differ across skill groups and countries due to differences in incentives to work …

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Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence : evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2014

their return to work within the first year after childbirth. We then compare the number and length of spells of long …-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …

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Stress, ethnicity, and prosocial behavior

Lowes, Sara; Haushofer, Johannes; Musau, Abednego; … - 2022

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Substitution elasticities between capital, labour, material, electricity and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors

Koschel, Henrike - 2000

In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors are estimated using a translog cost function. Estimates are based on a pooled time-series cross-sectional data sample for the period 1978-90 and...

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