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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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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor … markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

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Is There a Trade-off Between Job Security and Wages in Germany and the UK?

Hübler, Dominik; Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

BHPS panels. The distinction between perceived worry about job loss and economic indicators such as regional unemployment …

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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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The Link between Job Security and Wages: A Comparison between Germany and the UK

Hübler, Dominik; Hübler, Olaf - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 62 (2010) 1, pp. 45-67

We examine the wage effects of perceived and objective job security in Germany and the UK, and find that job security influences the wage development in both countries. We find that British workers react slightly more strongly to perceived security signals, and that the objective job security...

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Employment stability in newly founded firms: a matching approach using linked employer–employee data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - In: Small Business Economics 36 (2011) 1, pp. 85-100

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