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Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labor Market : The Household Interaction Effect
Francois, Patrick; van Ours, Jan C. - 2001
We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036782
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Gender Wage Differentials in a Competitive Labor Market : The Household Interaction Effect
van Ours, Jan C.; Francois, Patrick - 2021
We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321233
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497397
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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory: Locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282163
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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517424
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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287659
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Woman and the labour market in East and West Germany : socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. This paper contributes to this literature by reassessing the role of legacy effects of socialist labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738576
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A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory : Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2011
on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118524
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Couples, careers, and spatial mobility
Nassal, Lea Maria; Paul, Marie - 2022
earnings or for whose job opportunity couples move, confirms strong gender asymmetries in gains to moving. … Arbeitsplatzmerkmale beider Ehepartner auf Basis eines neuen administrativen Datensatzes aus Deutschland. Mithilfe von Differenzen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413279
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535887