Die Studie analysiert, welche Auswirkungen Mutterschaft auf die Gehälter und Löhne von Frauen hat. Anhand eines russischen Datensatzes wird mit Hilfe einer Abgleichungsmethode versucht, mögliche Selektionseffekte zu berechnen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Mütter einen moderaten Nachteil...

This study compares the duration of new job matches in the east and west German labour market that formed between the start of the German Economic, Monetary and Social Union in July 1990 and December 2000. The study relies on job duration data drawn from the German Socio-economic Panel. It shows...

In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search...

We demonstrate that non-monotone behaviour of the right tail of earnings density may lead to the fact that nonparametric estimation of the Bontemps et al. (2000) equilibrium search model with employer heterogeneity does not yield consistent estimates. We propose an easy way of checking whether...