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We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
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formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife’s labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …
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representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …
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different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these …-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the …
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minority ; migration ; unemployment ; labor force participation ; labor market …
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for sample selection into full- and part-time employment. The estimated part-time gap is much lower than the raw gap …, sample selection into part-time employment goes from being positive at the beginning of the 1990s to disappearing by the end … the distribution of job tasks between full- and part-time employment. …
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(1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection … into fulltime employment. However, we show that selection-corrected wages of male and female workers at the lower half of … of the male full-time employment force over time, which in spite of the rather constant male full-time employment rate …
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wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried … self-employment offers businesswomen a lucrative avenue with higher monetary rewards, albeit for a shorter spell. If … salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …
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immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …
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