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Explaining women's success : technological change and the skill content of women's work
Black, Sandra E. (contributor);  … - 2007
. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480030
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919076
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Determinants of child care participation
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Goeggel, Kathrin (contributor);  … - 2007
(GSOEP) from 1989{2006 we show that children living in Western Germany have a higher probability to attend institutional care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607689
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
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 … differentials between full-time and part-time employees, leads one to suppose that the existing wage gap in Germany may impede women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445955
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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits : evidence from a structural model
Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416349
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Return-to-job during and after maternity leave
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Steffes, Susanne; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2010
This paper studies the return-to-job of female employees after first birth based on exceptional longitudinal data from personnel records of a large German company. Given a very long maternity leave coverage, we investigate to what extent data available to management allow to predict the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759767
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Earnings of men and women in firms with a female dominated workforce : what drives the impact of sex segregation on wages?
Heinze, Anja - 2009
-employee data from Germany. My results indicate that an increasing proportion of women in an establishment reduces wages for males … and females in both western and eastern Germany. Furthermore the empirical analysis shows that by successively including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817159
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The changing life cycle pattern in female employment : a comparison of Germany and the UK
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2002
-time and part-time employment of different skill groups of women in the UK and West Germany. The analysis is based on large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447839
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Employment of mothers after childbirth : French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2003
mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448707
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The sorting of female careers after first birth : a competing risks analysis of maternity leave duration
Arntz, Melanie; Dlugosz, Stephan; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2014
- rived from large linked administrative individual labour market data from Germany for a period of three decades. We obtain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462752