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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …
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The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …
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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...
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