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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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Offshoring, employment, labour market reform and inequality: Modelling the German experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joel - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. We start from … scenario in which offshoring explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the … subsequent labour market reforms lower unemployment by lessening the reservation wage and expanding the non-tradable sector …
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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. This … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower … unemployment by lessening the reservation wage and expanding the non-tradable sector. The model replicates the developments of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212573
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Offshoring and labour market reforms: Modelling the German experience
Beissinger, Thomas; Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, … - 2015
have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. This … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower … unemployment by lessening the reservation wage and expanding the non-tradable sector. The model replicates the developments of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246034
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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
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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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
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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/10005697850
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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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