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Mothers in Eastern and Western Germany : employment rates and attitudes are converging, full-time employment is not
Barth, Denise; Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 38, pp. 403-410
by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours …
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Imposing and Testing Curvature Conditions on a Box-Cox Cost Function
Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, Francois - 2003
We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090179
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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox cost function
Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428379
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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function
Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000
We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445626
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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function
Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000
We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297734
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Employment and fertility : East Germany in the 1990s
Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2001
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What explains changes in full-time and part-time employment in Western Germany? : a new method on an old question
Klinger, Sabine; Wolf, Katja - 2008
From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has …: Characteristics inherent in full-time or part-time employment dominantly explain changes in employment patterns in Western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873927
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2008
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727132
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Gender pay gap in a European comparison : positive correlation between the female labor force participation rate and the gender pay gap
Schmieder, Julia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 9, pp. 65-70
Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … vary across countries, are one explanation for this. Germany has one of the highest gender pay gaps in Europe compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012488457
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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand
Euwals, Rob; Hogerbrugge, Maurice - 2021
Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfill most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as...
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