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This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …
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particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …
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OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … employment prospects increase with weight, albeit with diminishing returns. However, underweight men in blue-collar jobs earn …
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training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than healthy … ; discrimination ; employment ; labor demand …
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the gender difference. In contrast, the Big Five model and the current employment state have effects in the opposite …Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …
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This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and actual working hours, and monthly earnings. Our descriptive...
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longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
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longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
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