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Gender differences in experimental wage negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287199
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Gender differences in experimental wage negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571284
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Spillover effects of minimum wages in experimental wage negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 4, pp. 780-804
We conduct a laboratory experiment to study spillover effects of minimum wages on wages above the minimum. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining setting, the participants sit face-to-face and make alternating offers. We find that the introduction of a minimum wage exerts upward pressure on wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466534
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Gender differences in experimental wage negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - In: Economic inquiry : journal of the Western Economic … 52 (2014) 2, pp. 862-873
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470157
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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104251
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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations
Dittrich, Marcus; Knabe, Andreas; Leipold, Kristina - CESifo - 2012
We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877802
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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357440
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280847
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Quantifying the psychological costs of unemployment : the role of permanent income
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2007
Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also … show that, without this distinction, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment are overestimated by roughly one …-third. Nevertheless, the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment with this modified quantification method still amount to 2.3 (1.5) times the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630069
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - In: Applied economics 49 (2017) 13, pp. 1311-1325
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813548