Showing 1 - 10 of 6,181
This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency … men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745529
observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely driven by declining gender wag gaps within, rather than between …, occupations. A decomposition exercise reveals that while explained factors have become more important contributors to the gender … gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547925
Female-run firms are less likely to be exporters although they exert positive influence in various aspects in an economy and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995451
We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035189
In this paper we examine the linkages between involvement into global value chains (GVCs) and the gender wage … added embodied in exports (FVA/Exp.) We augment the Mincerian regression with GVC variable and report gender wage … lower. However, the relationship between GVC and wages differs in respect to gender; women are more affected by the negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098994
relatives, with women acting as caregivers far more frequently than men. This difference, known as the gender care gap, varies … institutional, societal, and labor market factors that are related to the gender care gap across European countries. The results … show that the gap is smaller in countries that spend more on the formal care system. In addition, they show that the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477333
This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the … up to 14.5% of the overall gender wage gap. However, controlling for personality traits does not lead to a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824923
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826704
Geschlechtern sind. -- Gender Wage Gap ; Oaxaca/Blinder Dekomposition ; Diskriminierung … mainly explained through family building and a gender-specific, traditional allocation of responsibilities within a household …. In contrast, direct discrimination seems to be less important for the gender-specific earnings-differences. -- Gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530394
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009308938