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Returns to Education in Professional Football
Böheim, René - 2011
After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft. We analyze the starting salaries and signing...
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The Politicians’ Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129100
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The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK : With or Against the Trade Unions?
Böheim, René - 2009
curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of …. We use British data from the Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) of 1998 and 2004. The empirical association … between the employment of agency workers and union strength is weak, but positive. Furthermore, workplaces with collective …
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Inequality and Income Dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, … - 2022
lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …
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Temporary Agency Work in Portugal, 1995 - 2000
Böheim, René; Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2021
There is widespread belief that workers in temporary agency work (TAW) are subject to poorer working conditions, in particular pay, than comparable workers in the rest of the economy. The first aim of this analysis is to quantify the wage penalty, if any, for workers in TAW. Secondly, we analyze...
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