A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … to skill level and employment status. While life-cycle wage growth is in general much lower for females compared to males …. Surprisingly, we do not find any cohort effects for wages of female employees. …

Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … lower wages than comparable full-time workers. The results further point out that more experienced women, who accumulated …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables … and occupation explain fairly little. Extending the analysis to total employment confirms the basic findings, while …

the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that …

, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …

Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that … wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … entire observation period. The mobility decline was sharper in East Germany so that the level of wage mobility has fallen …

between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human …

The paper deals with an analysis of the growth of innovative and non-innovative start-ups in Eastern and Western … Germany. Hypothesis upon the influence of potential determinants are derived from theoretical approaches explaining the growth … of firms extended by aspects especially relevant for innovative firms. The most striking result is that innovative start-ups …

the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly in their employment … important characteristics measured at start-up. The comparison of the employment growth rates among the thus formed groups …. A considerable number of firms exiting from 1995 until 1998 has experienced continuing employment losses or at least an …

and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment … growth or stagnate over time. The job generation mechanism rests with a handful of firms that increase their employment … when separatingEastern and Western Germany as well as usingdifferen t definitions of fast growingfirms. Moreover, the …