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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
shows that all workplace related effects (firm effects and bargaining effects) and coefficients for personal characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946241
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory (Kremer (1993)). Using a rich employer-employee data set on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871339
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Rising wage inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314699
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Gender earnings gap in German firms : the impact of firm characteristics and institutions
Heinze, Anja (contributor); Wolf, Elke (contributor) - 2006
the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314702
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The returns to pencil use revisited
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2007
workplace. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447774
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Beyond the mean gender wage gap : decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression
Heinze, Anja - 2010
the dependence between the human capital endowment of individuals and workplace characteristics. The selection of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979148
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Fit and complementarity : cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of co-operative R&D projects' outcomes in Europe
Zibell, Laurent; Allen, Peter M. - 2009
This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co … projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing technical and scientific competence, R&D management competence and … competence being developed appear to be better predictors of concrete project outcomes than geographic distance, differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902965
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Educational attaintment and returns to education in Germany : an analysis by subject of degree, gender and region
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002681891
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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328091
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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447754