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Kunze, Astrid; Ejrnaes, Mette - 2004

We use a rich longitudinal data set for West Germany to disentangle the wage effects for female workers around first birth. Data on daily real wages reveal a dip in women's real wages shortly before giving birth and a drop of 10 to 20 percent after finishing maternity leave and returning to the...

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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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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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Gender Differences in Entry Wages and Early Career Wages

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

In this paper we investigate the evolution of the gender wage gap over early careers of skilled workers in Germany using administrative longitudinal data. Advantages of the data for this type of analysis are that we observe complete work and skill accumulation histories from the beginning for up...

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The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers, national service for male workers and other non-work...

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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search

Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into...

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The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2004

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...

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The Evolution of the Early Career Gender Wage Gap

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

In this paper we investigate when the male-female wage differential arises: Does it evolve over the early career or does it exist right from entry into first employment onwards? For the analysis we use new administrative longitudinal data and focus on the early careers of skilled workers in...

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