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The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities: Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work
Felfe, Christina - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...
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Zur Berechnung von Bruttostundenlöhnen - Verdienst(struktur)erhebung und Sozio-oekonomisches Panel im Vergleich
Dütsch, Matthias; Himmelreicher, Ralf K.; Ohlert, Clemens - 2017
Aufgrund der Festlegung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns als Stundenlohn müssen valide Informationen, zu Bruttostundenlöhnen aus den Angaben zu Monatsentgelten und wöchentlichen Arbeitszeiten, berechnet werden. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht methodisch sowie empirisch das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und...
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Higher and higher? Performance pay and wage inequality in Germany
Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2012
Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality?...
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The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities: Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work
Felfe, Christina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552727
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Higher and Higher?: Performance Pay and Wage Inequality in Germany
Sommerfeld, Katrin - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Performance pay is of growing importance to the wage structure as it applies to a rising share of employees. At the same time wage dispersion is growing continuously. This leads to the question of how the growing use of performance pay schemes is related to the increase in wage inequality?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601627
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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany
Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - 2008
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600769
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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Reilich, Julia - 2011
Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...
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Fiskalische und individuelle Nettoerträge und Renditen von Bildungsinvestitionen im jungen Erwachsenenalter
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Stichnoth, Holger - 2019
,6%, im Vergleich zu einer Person ohne Berufsausbildung. Im Falle von Personen mit einem Schul- und Hochschulabschluss …,2%, ebenfalls im Vergleich zu einer Person ohne Berufsausbildung. Während die individuellen Bildungsrenditen aus dem Bruttoeinkommen … Sozialpolitik. Im Vergleich zu 2012 sind die fiskalischen Renditen für die Ausbildung etwas gestiegen und für die Kombination Schule …
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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Educational mismatch has been discussed extensively, mostly by applying OLS wage regressions which are prone to an unobserved heterogeneity bias. This problem is...
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Estimating heterogeneous returns to education in Germany via conditional heteroskedasticity
Saniter, Nils - 2012
In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are...
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