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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …

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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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The Return to Labor Market Mobility : An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed

Caliendo, Marco - 2015

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates … on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other hand. This is somewhat surprising and …

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Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes

Caliendo, Marco - 2015

Although home-ownership has been shown to restrict geographic labor mobility and to affect job search behavior of … restricted mobility by more intensive (more search channels or applications) or different (more active or informal) search …

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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment : An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to … unemployment and vice versa. While long-term differences across demographic groups are dominating the structure of both job loss …

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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 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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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany

Oberfichtner, Michael - 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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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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The Levelling Effect of Product Market Competition on Gender Wage Discrimination

Hirsch, Boris - 2014

few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

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The Gender Wage Gap : Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?

Caliendo, Marco - 2014

This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a...

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