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What Drives the Reversal of the Gender Education Gap? Evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on … family background nor labor market characteristics appear to be strongly associated with the gender education gap. There is … some evidence that the gender gap in upper secondary education reflects the rising share of single parent households which …

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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

Rycx, Francois - 2015

gender equality in terms of remuneration and career advancement …

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits : The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette - 2009

birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects …

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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade : Evidence from a Small Open Economy

Du Caju, Philip - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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Are Occupations Paid What They are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Garnero, Andrea - 2013

consequences of gender diversity are found to depend on the technological/knowledge environment of firms. While gender diversity …

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?

O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007

Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...

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Industry Wage Differentials, Unobserved Ability, and Rent-Sharing : Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data, 1995-2002

Plasman, Robert - 2006

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering the period 1995-2002. Findings show the existence of large and persistent wage differentials among workers with the same observed...

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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?

Mahy, Benoit; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Melanie - 2021

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment...

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Educational and Skills Mismatches : Unravelling Their Effects on Wages Across Europe

Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoit; Rycx, Francois; … - 2022

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...

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