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Maternity leave and its consequences for subsequent careers in Germany
Franz, Nele Elisa - 2014
This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464371
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Maternity Leave and Its Consequences for Subsequent Careers in Germany
Franz, Nele E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114567
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600760
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Beyond conventional wage discrimination analysis: Assessing comprehensive wage distributions of males and females using structured additive distributional regression
Sohn, Alexander - 2015
In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive framework for analysing wage discrimination. This framework assesses wage discrimination on the grounds of conditional wage distributions (rather than just conditional means), regards the whole population (rather than just those in work) and employs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439788
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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a … effects of non-cognitive skills for high-wage employees compared to their low-wage counterparts. I test these hypotheses with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011707828
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data: An application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - 2013
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317551
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018742
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896235
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany: Heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory … compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325128
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory … compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … estimating the effect of education on cognitive skills. The results suggest that education after the eighth year does not seem to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128958