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September 11th and the earnings of muslims in Germany : the moderating role of education and firm size
Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010
While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...
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Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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Starting your career with a temporary job : stepping stone or "dead-end"?
Pavlopoulos, Dimitris - 2009
This paper uses panel data from the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP) to investigate the wage effect of entering the labour market with a temporary job. Further than the previous literature that studied the effect of the contract type on wage dynamics in the explained part of a wage regression, we...
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Low pay persistence in European countries
Clark, Kenneth; Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos C. - 2009
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - Revised version
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades … both approaches produce estimates of average returns to education that decrease until the late 1990s and increase … afterwards. The gender gap in returns to education seems to vanish. Furthermore, we find that the so-called "baby boomer" cohort …
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Rising wage inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
Based on samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) 1984 to 2004, this paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany. Between 1984 and 1994 wages for prime age dependent male workers increased on average by 23 percent and the wage distribution in West Germany...
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2020
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the...
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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Has atypical work become typical in Germany? : country case studies on labour market segmentation
Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2013
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor...
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...
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