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Vocational training and gender : wages and occupational mobility among young workers
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kunze, Astrid (contributor) - 2005
occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make … higher wage paths through mobility. We furthermore investigate whether patterns have changed across cohorts during the period …, the gap is highest and it increases with experience. Third, occupational mobility is lower for women than for men and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003247587
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Vocational Training and Gender : Wages and Occupational Mobility Among Young Workers
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - 2021
occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make … higher wage paths through mobility. We furthermore investigate whether patterns have changed across cohorts during the period …, the gap is highest and it increases with experience. Third, occupational mobility is lower for women than for men and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318295
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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2018
It is commonplace in the debate on Germany's labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067266
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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
job-to-job transitions, age, and education on wage mobility. Based on our descriptive analysis, we conclude that indeed a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727242
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108229
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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826232
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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262910
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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257376
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Gender Wage Differences in West Germany : A Cohort Analysis
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2008
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/10014031271
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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/10013428347