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newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first … scenario where we abstain from employment effects, the pay differential is reduced by 2.5 percentage points from 19.6% to 17 …
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German graduates is rather shaped by an employment behaviour suiting traditional gender roles and assigned gender stereotypes … differently and whether this might answer for part of the gender pay gap. We decompose total year of schooling in years of over …, overeducation does not matter for the gender pay gap. By contrast, women's fewer years of required education reasonably do …
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The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990. Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how...
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increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies … on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account household size. Therefore, there is an obvious link between these …
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Clemens Fuest, Andreas Peichl und Thilo Schaefer, Universität zu Köln, sowie Joachim Mitschke stellen in diesem Beitrag das von ihnen entwickelte Kombilohnmodell, den »Kölner-Kombilohn«, vor und berechnen Beschäftigungs- sowie Aufkommenswirkungen ihres Vorschlags, bei dem gering entlohnte,...
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In this paper, we use SOEP data to explore whether parents' employment has an extra effect on the school achievement of … the existence of an employment channel as well as a social channel from mothers to their kids. A negative role model for …
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the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical … regions, consistent with complementarity in spouses' leisure in the US versus substitution in spouses' household production in …
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Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
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