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Vocational training and gender: wages and occupational mobility among young workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - 2005

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make … higher wage paths through mobility. We furthermore investigate whether patterns have changed across cohorts during the period …, the gap is highest and it increases with experience. Third, occupational mobility is lower for women than for men and the …

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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among Young Workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly - driven not only by...

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 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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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

) reaction to rising and falling unemployment. In contrast, wage growth in establishments without collective bargaining adjusts … only to falling unemployment and is unaffected by rising unemployment. …

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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

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Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment

Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2018

The effects of large minimum wage increases, like those planned in the UK and in some US states, are still unknown. We conduct a survey experiment that randomly assigns increases or decreases in minimum wages to about 6,000 establishments in Germany and asks the personnel managers about their...

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Union density and varieties of coverage: the anatomy of union wage effects in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...

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Paying more than necessary? The wage cushion in Germany

Jung, Sven; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the levels of actual and contractual wages. Cross-sectional...

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