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Gender segregation and gender wage differences during the early labour market career

Bechara, Peggy - 2012

labour market and its development during workers' early career. The analysis contributes to the existing research on gender … career in lower-paying occupations and establishments. With progressing labour market experience, however, gender segregation …. Therefore, part of the early career wage gap remains unexplained. -- Gender wage gap ; early career ; labour market segregation …

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Time is money : the influence of parenthood timing on wages

Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - 2012

study the underlying mechanisms of the wage premium, paying particular attention to the relationship between career stage … and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of … 7%. -- Fertility ; wage differentials ; career path …

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Reaching high : occupational sorting and higher education wage inequality in the UK

Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren - 2012

We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...

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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The empirical findings suggest that male workers with medium and high degrees of occupational specialization who were born at the peak of the baby boom earn at least 5.3% lower wages than...

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Risky business : the role of individual risk attitudes in occupational choice

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2010

This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard deviation of wages. Following the procedure...

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Continuous training and wages : an empirical analysis using a comparison-group approach

Görlitz, Katja - 2010

Using German linked employer-employee data, this paper investigates the impact of on-the-job training on wages. The applied estimation technique was first introduced by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). The idea is to compare wages of employees who intended to participate in training but did not do...

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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Wage differentials by field of study : the case of German university graduates

Görlitz, Katja; Grave, Barbara S. - 2012

Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly wages compared to other fields of study. Blinder-Oaxaca...

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Migration magnet : the role of work experience in rural-urban wage differentials in Mexico

Michaelsen, Maren; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2011

analyse rural-to-urban migrants' labour market performance. The findings suggest that rural-to-urban migration will continue …

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The hidden increase in wage inequality : skill-biased and ability-biased technology change

Michaelsen, Maren - 2011

This study provides strong evidence for an increase in wage inequality induced by skillbiased technological change in the UK manufacturing industry between 1991 and 2006. Using individual level data from the BHPS and industry level data from the OECD, wage regressions are estimated which...

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