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Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826232
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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257376
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Do unions and works councils really dampen the gender pay gap? : discordant evidence from Germany
Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus; Töpfer, Marina - 2020
Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and industrial relations from within German workplaces. Controlling for unobserved workplace heterogeneity, we find no evidence that introducing or abandoning collective agreements or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262910
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 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/10013108229
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278580
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Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? : a decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-25
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, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725391
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Potential parenthood and career progression of men and women : a simultaneous hazards approach
Biewen, Martin; Seifert, Stefanie - 2016
We analyze individual career transitions of men and women in Germany. Our particular focus is on the association of upward, downward and horizontal job changes with individual fertility. In contrast to most of the literature, we focus on potential rather than realized fertility. Based on mixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502655
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Unemployment Persistence : Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?
Steffes, Susanne - 2008
We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723179
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Unemployment Persistence : Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?
Steffes, Susanne - 2008
We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723352
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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 - 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/10010282549