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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2019
into fulltime employment. However, we show that selection-corrected wages of male and female workers at the lower half of … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection … 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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Does employer learning vary by occupation?
Mansour, Hani - 2010
principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974544
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The dynamics of earnings in Germany : evidence from social security records
Bönke, Timm; Giesecke, Matthias; Lüthen, Holger - 2015
undergoes a heavy transformation and experiences strong deregulation, deunionization and a shift in employment from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373904
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The gender gap in wage expectations : do young women trade off higher wages for lower wage risk?
Zambre, Vaishali - 2018
formation of reservation wages. Building on the theoretical reasoning of compensating differentials proposing that the labor … market compensates higher wage risk with higher wages, this study investigates whether the gender gap in wage expectations … school graduates in which we elicited information on the entire distribution of expected wages, this study documents that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865456
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Riding the transition roller-coaster : flexibility and the inter-industry wage structure in Russia
Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
conditions. The issue of wage arrears (unpaid wages or outstanding pay), which affects half of all employees, plays an important … role in the determination of wages. Studies, which do not account for wage arrears, overestimate the overall inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436169
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Winners and losers : fragmentation, trade and wages revisited
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004 - Updated version: March 2004
Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and … outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … real wage for workers in the lowest skill categories by up to 1.8% while it increased real wages for high-skilled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439313
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995255
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The impact of selection into the labor force on the gender wage gap
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021 - Preliminary draft
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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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity : it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie (contributor) - 2008
salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …. However, if self-employed businesswomen went into salaried jobs, their wages would decline, suggesting that it is the self-employment … wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried …
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