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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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Angemessene und nachhaltige Renten für alle?: Die geschlechtsspezifische Wirkung des deutschen Rentensystems

Frericks, Patricia - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 80 (2011) 2, pp. 119-132

All across the world, pension systems are undergoing considerable change. Public pension systems have been reformed and parts of the formerly public social provision have been shifted to market based provisions. The normative pretensions of European welfare states, however, remain unchanged...

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Training, Earnings and Mobility in Germany

Winkelmann, Rainer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

An increase in youth unemployment and a bi-modal wage distribution in the United States have generated interest in the structure and performance of alternative labour markets. In particular, comparatively satisfactory outcomes in the German labour market are said to have been determined by the...

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Koelling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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The role of capital income for top incomes shares in Germany

Bartels, Charlotte; Jenderny, Katharina - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2014

A large literature has documented top income share series based on income tax statistics using the common methodology established by Piketty (2001, 2003). The disappearance of capital income from the income tax base in many countries poses a major challenge to the comparability of these series...

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Implicit contracts and industrial relations - Evidence from German employer-employee data

Gartner, Hermann - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 298-304

I test the evidence for implicit contracts across different regimes of industrial relations in Germany. The result is that there is strong evidence for implicit contracts. Comparing regimes of industrial relations, I find stronger support for implicit contracts in firms with individual...

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Growth or security? Regulatory focus determines work priorities

Steidle, Anna; Gockel, Christine; Werth, Lioba - In: Management Research Review 36 (2013) 2, pp. 173-182

employee's regulatory focus was analyzed using multi-level modeling. Findings – It was found that employees' promotion and … prevention focus were related to specific work priorities: the higher a person's promotion focus, the more the person valued … the first study to address the central question of different priorities associated with promotion and prevention focus in …

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Planning of the grid integration of wind energy in Germany onshore and offshore up to the year 2020

Bartels, Michael; Gatzen, Christoph; Peek, Markus; … - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 25 (2006) 3/4, pp. 257-275

promotion volumes (direct costs of Renewable Energy Source (RES) promotion) but also on necessary grid extensions, the future …

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INSTITUTIONALISATION OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING IN FAMILY BUSINESSES — EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRIA AND GERMANY

HIEBL, MARTIN R. W.; FELDBAUER-DURSTMÜLLER, BIRGIT; … - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 20 (2012) 04, pp. 405-436

This study investigates whether family businesses (FBs) differ from non-family businesses (NFBs) regarding the institutionalisation of management accounting. Furthermore, it analyses whether FB-specific contextual factors such as the existence of non-family management and the level of family...

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Internal and external drivers for risk taking in UK and German insurance markets

Eling, Martin; Marek, Sebastian D. - In: International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance 4 (2012) 1, pp. 48-76

The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of both firm-specific and external factors on the risk taking of European insurance companies. The extent of risk taking is quantified through variations in stock prices and these are explained by firm-specific and external factors that proxy the...

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