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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 market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322837
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Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600659
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600660
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601006
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Minimum wage in Germany: Countering the wage and employment gap between migrants and natives?
Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the wages and employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit from a minimum wage. We combine a "differential trend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013546660
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475155
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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 one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167688
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The child penalty: Implications of parenthood on labour market outcomes for men and women in Germany
Feldhoff, Charlotte H. - 2021
Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483867
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018694
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Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018725