Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-25
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, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...