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Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1618-1624
Using a large linked employer–employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong competition. We find that the unexplained gender pay...
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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
Jaeger, David A.; Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Geographic mobility is important for the functioning of labor markets because it brings labor resources to where they … demographic characteristics, as well as to the level of aggregation used to define geographic mobility. The effect is substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763457
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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration
Jaeger, David A.; Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2007
Geographic mobility is important for the functioning of labor markets because it brings labor resources to where they … demographic characteristics, as well as to the level of aggregation used to define geographic mobility. The effect is substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005168587
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10011279309
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of … immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761965
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Wage and Employment Effects of Immigration to Germany: Evidence from a Skill Group Approach
Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
rise of the share of immigrants in the workforce would in general reduce wages by less than one percent and not increase … unemployment. Though the adverse effects appear stronger for less-qualified and older workers, the evidence altogether sharply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700848
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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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/10010980674
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of … immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661532
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Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822550
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Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms : An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509545