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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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Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed: Are natives and second generation migrants alike?

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) November, pp. 825-851

Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany. The data include … unemployment entry. Research limitations/implications – The findings offer interesting perspectives, e.g. with regard to the design …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) November, pp. 753-776

representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. The data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us …

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The Role of Turkish Immigrants in Entrepreneurial Activities in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005

This paper addresses a central issue to migration the role of immigrants in entrepreneurial activity. In particular … methods. The findings are that observable characteristics play different roles in the self-employment choice of immigrants and …

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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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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. …

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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; Berg, Gerard J. van den - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) November, pp. 777-795

Purpose – Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. The aim of this paper is to study whether such ex ante effects differ according to ethnic origin. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply a method that relates self-reported perceived...

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Naturalization proclivities, ethnicity and integration

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, … - In: International Journal of Manpower 30 (2009) May, pp. 70-82

origins and religion also influence these decisions. Muslim immigrants in Germany are more willing to become German citizens … than non-Muslim immigrants, but there are also fewer German citizens among Muslims than among non-Muslims. Research …

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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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