GPG much more than the wages of women. Second, the decomposition results reveal pronounced differences in the impact of … (GPG) in Germany. Using a comprehensive data set of all full-time employees, we conduct Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions for … Germany and its regions to explain the regional variation of the GPG with theory-based individual, job-related and regional …

The paper aims to identify the effect of non-standard employment on wages in the Turkish labour market across gender … show that non-standard employment reduces wages for women at every quantile but no such results are attained for men …

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …

Germany during the period 1999 - 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative … decomposition methodologies; the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991) decomposition, and a methodology that totally differences the Oaxaca …-Blinder (1973) decomposition, found in Smith and Welch (1989). I conclude that most of the increase in the gender wage gap occurred …

transition, East Germany experienced big increases in both its wage level and wage dispersion. From 1990 to 2000 real wages in …East Germany, a unique socialist command economy prior to the 1990s, underwent rapid transition to a market …-oriented economic system. This transition has been of intense interest given the environment of Eastern Germany vis-a-vis Western …

inequality between permanent and contract workers, since contract workers earn substantially lower wages than their counterpart …

. A decomposition analysis shows that the increase in the conditional wage gap indeed contributed to rising wage …

decomposition techniques are employed to uncover the extent to which the overeducation wage penalty can be attributed to either (i …