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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 employerâ€“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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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...

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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

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Discrimination in Latin America: An Economic Perspective

Ñopo, Hugo; Gandelman, Néstor; Gandelman, Eduardo; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new … findings that confirm some of the common perceptions regarding discrimination but challenge the conventional wisdom in other … less than inhabitants of other regions, and the discrimination that does occur appears largely to stem from lack of …

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Is There Labor Market Discrimination among Professionals in Chile?: Lawyers, Doctors and Businesspeople

Bravo, David; Sanhueza, Claudia; Urzúa, Sergio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

This paper analyzes gender differences in three Chilean professional labor markets, business, law and medicine, utilizing a new and rich data set collected for this purpose. The results show that differences in wages attributed to gender are only present in the legal profession. In...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

about one third of the gender pay gap might be wage discrimination by profit-maximizing monopsonistic employers. …

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Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

about one third of the gender pay gap might be wage discrimination by profit-maximizing monopsonistic employers. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558664