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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014
persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that … a high socioeconomic status are found to be less likely to be overqualified. The unconditional social overqualification … overqualification gap can be attributed to group differences in observable characteristics. Differences in cognitive skills, study …
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Dynamics of overqualification : evidence from the early career of graduates
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2017
This study analyses the persistence and true state dependence of overqualification, i.e. a mismatch between workers … overqualification is highly persistent among tertiary graduates over the first ten years of their career cycle. Accounting for … persistence of overqualification. In particular, selection into initial overqualification at the start of the career is of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636067
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Gender wage differences in West Germany : a cohort analysis
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000
A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions for both males and females as well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444942
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901534
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Wages in the East German transition process : facts and explanations
Franz, Wolfgang; Steiner, Viktor - 1999
We analyze wage developments in the East German transition process both at the macro and at the microeconomic level. At the macroeconomic level, we draw special attention to the important distinction between product and consumption wages, describe the development of various wage measures, labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443093
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445955
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Wage penalties for career interruptions : an empirical analysis for West Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002
This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees' entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447542
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Good occupation - bad occupation? : the quality of apprenticeship training
Göggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas - 2009
Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846085
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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
This study analyzes the relationship between the segregation of women across establishments and the salaries paid to … the salaries paid to both sexes. -- Gender wage differentials ; female segregation across establishments ; matched …
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
It is often noted that employment rates of females have been rising during the last decades. However, in contrast to men, women are often part-time employed and the allocation of working time over the life-cycle is linked to family formation. In addition, employment rates may differ across skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447839