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considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reasons … earnings growth for men and women. Using administrative data, we are the first to investigate potential gender gaps in earnings … increase due to a promotion in Germany. Moreover, we are the first to analyze differences in the gender gap across promotions …
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We study how firm premia influence the gender wage gap for 21 European countries over 12 years. We use a quadrennial … harmonized matched employer-employee data set to estimate gender-specific firm premia. Subsequently, we decompose the firm … the subgroups by age and gender reveals heterogeneity in the development of the components. We pay particular attention to …
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focuses on the gender composition of the workforce, female and male workers? employment conditions and gender wage inequality …-educated workforce with technical skills. In light of these perspectives, gender gaps in education and, on average, women?s weaker labour …
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Job creation schemes (JCSs) have for a long time been considered to function as stepping stone for unemployed workers into the labour market. However, previous research has shown that public job creation schemes could at best be effective for persons with little or no employment chances. This...
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I analyse the effects of further training subsidies for low-skilled employed workers on individual labor market outcomes in Germany for the period 2007 to 2012. Using detailed administrative data, I exploit cross-regional variation in conditional policy styles of local employment agencies, and...
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gender-specific skills. We hypothesize that a culturally induced division of labor along gender lines generates gender …, we find a clear division of labor along gender lines between domestic and non-domestic work. We show that women exposed … a neglected explanation for gender disparities in labor income. …
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the determinants of female labour supply in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Using data from the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), the author finds that women in STEM work more hours, but have a higher...
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opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …
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graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the … intention to become a professor. We find that gender gaps related to aiming for a professorship can be fully explained by … observable characteristics other than gender. On the contrary, even after adding controls for an array of characteristics …
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