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, the length of the training period on the job as well as job related burdens due to a job at risk and a limited employment …
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This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment …, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual …
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In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified …-Blinder (1973) decomposition, found in Smith and Welch (1989). I conclude that most of the increase in the gender wage gap occurred …, potential experience and tenure compared men, and that the increasing gender wage gap was mainly due to changes in the gender …
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" (rather than a definition based on payment). Examining wage discrimination with respect to gender in Germany, we find that … gender wage discrimination is exacerbated if considered in such a framework, as women are faced not only with a lower … expected pay, but also with a more unequal distribution, lower chances of employment and a higher workload of unpaid activities …
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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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This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on … the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay … distributions. The inequality-adjusted gender pay gap measures are significantly larger than suggested by standard indicators …
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-specific labor market segregation and dimensions of the household and family to the model allows more than two-thirds of the gender …Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present … differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in …
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
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importance of gender roles in mobility decisions. I extend past literature in two ways. First, while past research mostly … relatively higher returns after moves? Recent research shows the stratification of returns by gender and highlights the … examined partners separately, I directly test for gender differences in matched pairs of women and men in dual-earner couples …
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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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