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Gender Wage Differentials and the Occupational Injury Risk - Evidence from Germany and the US

Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2008

Numerous studies, in particular for the US, have shown that individuals in occupations with high injury risk are compensated for that risk by corresponding bonus payments. At the same time, male workers are overrepresented in the most dangerous occupations like scaffolders or miners, while...

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September 11th and the earnings of muslims in Germany : the moderating role of education and firm size

Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010

While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...

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Global financial deregulation : commercial banking at the crossroads

Swary, Itzhak; Topf, Barry - 1992 - 1. publ.

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A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium

Colonnelli, Emanuele - 2019

We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these countries. However, we uncover...

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Getting What (Employers Think) You’re Worth – Evidence on the Gender Gap in Entry Wages among University Graduates

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian - 2011

starting wages is scarce. To fill this gap, we make use of a unique dataset on graduates in economics from a large …’s entry wages are significant lower than those of their male counterparts. Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions suggest that the …

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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries

Markaki, Yvonni - 2014

This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...

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Early gender gaps among university graduates

Francesconi, Marco; Parey, Matthias - 2018

We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and labor market performance twelve to eighteen months after graduation. Men and women enter college in roughly equal numbers, but more women than men complete their degrees. Women...

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Occupational Characteristics and the Obesity Wage Penalty

Shinall, Jennifer Bennett - 2016

interaction jobs pay relatively more. Moreover, the few obese women who work in public interaction occupations receive lower wages …

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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity : It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Constant, Amelie - 2021

wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried … salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …. However, if self-employed businesswomen went into salaried jobs, their wages would decline, suggesting that it is the self …

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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