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 this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

This paper studies the effect of parenthood timing on future wages. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … (SOEP), we employ an instrumental variable approach to identify the causal effect of delaying parenthood on wages of mothers … and fathers. Consistent with previous studies, we provide evidence for a positive delaying effect on wages. We further …

entering self-employment. This holds true when it is also taken into account that workers usually report a smaller firm size …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …

Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German …, as opposed to a more “male” job, affects only women's wages negatively. This result remains stable after controlling for …

Germany during the period 1999 – 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative …