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Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers

Troske, Kenneth R.; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

and outcomes between men and women are due to differences in nonmarket opportunities rather than to discrimination. …In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses … men and women the duration of search is equal once we limit our estimation to women with a constant number of children in …

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Gender Differences in Entry Wages and Early Career Wages

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

In this paper we investigate the evolution of the gender wage gap over early careers of skilled workers in Germany using administrative longitudinal data. Advantages of the data for this type of analysis are that we observe complete work and skill accumulation histories from the beginning for up...

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The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young skilled workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers, national service for male workers and other non-work...

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The Evolution of the Early Career Gender Wage Gap

Kunze, Astrid - 2002

In this paper we investigate when the male-female wage differential arises: Does it evolve over the early career or does it exist right from entry into first employment onwards? For the analysis we use new administrative longitudinal data and focus on the early careers of skilled workers in...

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