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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600999
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International Trade and Individual Labour Market Perspectives: A Micro-Level Analysis of German Manufacturing Workers
Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600939
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Trade shocks, fertility, and marital behavior
Giuntella, Osea; Rotunno, Lorenzo; Stella, Luca - 2021
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to trade on the fertility and marital behavior of German workers. We find that individuals working in sectors that were more affected by import competition from Eastern Europe and suffered worse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504541
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All we need is love? Trade-adjustment, inequality, and the role of the partner
Huber, Katrin; Winkler, Erwin - 2016
We examine the distributional effect of Germany's trade integration with China and Eastern Europe and show that there are considerable differences between the household level and the individual level impact. The trade shock increased inequality of individual earnings. At the household level,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558644
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International Trade and Individual Labour Market Perspectives: A Micro-Level Analysis of German Manufacturing Workers
Lurweg, Maren; Uhde, Nicole - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper studies the impact of international trade on individual labour market outcomes in the German manufacturing sector for the period 1995-2006. Combining micro-level data from the German Socioeconomic Panel and industry-level trade data from input-output tables, we examine the impacts on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522630
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Do parental leaves make the motherhood wage penalty worse? Assessing two decades of German reforms
Mari, Gabriele; Cutuli, Giorgio - 2019
Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985360
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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany: What role does firm size play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286911
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Can personality traits explain glass ceilings?
Collischon, Matthias - 2018
This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the … up to 14.5% of the overall gender wage gap. However, controlling for personality traits does not lead to a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825082
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516287
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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277343