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In this paper we examine the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany from 1997 to 2013 based on the DZHW … significant gender wage gaps exist within fields of studies, especially in male-dominated fields like engineering and natural …
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In this paper we examine the gender wage gap among university graduates in Germany from 1997 to 2013 based on the DZHW … significant gender wage gaps exist within fields of studies, especially in male-dominated fields like engineering and natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013397545
disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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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...
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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...
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This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable … private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the analysis shows that if a large part of the gender wage gap can be … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender …
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Einheimische. Zudem sind ihre Fähigkeiten nur beschränkt auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt übertragbar. …
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This article studies the extent of occupational gender segregation in Germany and analyzes the influence of … index. We find that the link between the level of segregation and organizational characteristics such as gender …
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Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its … snapshot nature, is inappropriate to capture the biographical dimension of gendered pay. With the 'gender lifetime earnings gap …, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …
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formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …
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