Der Bericht ist wie folgt aufgebaut. In Kapitel 2 wird detailliert dargestellt, wie sich die offiziellen Statistiken der Bundesagentur für Arbeit sowie des Statistischen Bundesamtes hinsichtlich der Höhe der Lohnlücke unterscheiden und wie sich diese Unterschiede erklären lassen. In Kapitel...

Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we...

We use a newly available measure of linguistic distance developed by the German Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to explain heterogeneity in language skills of immigrants. This measure is based on an automatical algorithm comparing pronunciation and vocabulary of language...

Since the early 1970s, wage differentials between men and women have attracted the research interest of labor economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages is scarce. To fill this gap, we make use...