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Earnings inequality in Germany : a decomposition-analysis

Stein, Ulrike - 2017

Several studies have shown that income inequality has risen in Germany until 2005. Less focus was put on the rise of earnings inequality which continued to rise until 2010. We distinguish different groups in the labour market with respect to working-time, gender and region by exploiting data...

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Women between part-time and full-time work : the influence of changing hours of work on happiness and life-satisfaction

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Romeu Gordo, Laura - 2010

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...

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The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men?

Wolf, Elke - 2014

Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I therefore use SOEP panel data from 1984 to 2010 and apply different econometric approaches and definitions of part-time work to measure the socalled part-time wage gap of both,...

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Maternal employment and happiness : the effect of non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction

Berger, Eva M. - 2009

In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time...

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Teilzeit - ein Karrierekiller?

Moser, Julia - 2020

Teilzeitarbeit in Verbindung mit Karriere eine wichtige Rolle? Die in dieser Arbeit empirisch ermittelten Ergebnisse sollen dazu …Ist Teilzeitarbeit und Karriere vereinbar oder ist Teilzeitarbeit ein Karrierekiller? Welche Faktoren spielen bei der … die konkrete Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit und die zu beantwortende Forschungsfrage erläutert und anschließend der Aufbau der …

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Factors influencing female labor force participation in Egypt and Germany : a comparative study

Hosney, Sara Hassan Mohamed Hassan - 2016

This paper aims to identify the major factors influencing female labor force participation (FLFP) in Egypt and Germany. On a narrow scope and given the unclear relationship between educational attainment and Egyptian FLFP, this paper seeksto examine the effect of educational attainment on the...

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Do parental leaves make the motherhood wage penalty worse? : assessing two decades of German reforms

Mari, Gabriele; Cutuli, Giorgio - 2019

Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of...

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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