A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating returns to tertiary education separately by subject of degree for the …, which is coherent with the relatively high returns to this group. One interesting finding is that each gender reaches the …

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds … is found for the effect of gender and cohort. …

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

capital characteristics and the effect of firm characteristics in explaining the gender wage gap. Furthermore, I implement the … rent-sharing to a lesser extent than their male colleagues. This is the source of the largest part of the pay gap. Gender … differential. -- gender wage gap ; decomposition ; quantile regression …

acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …'s patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results …

acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …'s patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results …

technology competition increases which is in line with the argument that licensing can mitigate hold-up problems in technology … markets. -- Licensing ; blocking patents ; discrete and complex technologies ; technology competition …