Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … background, working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender earnings gap, suggesting … human capital endowments account for another 13 percent of the gap but segregation does not contribute to the gender …

data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the … attitudes but the small difference is used to investigate the difference in the propensity to become self-employed by gender. A … to be a reason not to start one's own business is important for the explanation of the gender gap in entrepreneurship …

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …-employment and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment … states. The gender differential in the transition rates is decomposed using a novel extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca technique …

research, namely (first) the “gender gap” in self-employment and (second) gender-specific occupational and industrial … segregation, also in self-employment. The “gender gap” in self-employment refers to the phenomenon that despite increasing …-employment ratio (Arum and Müller 2004, Leicht and Strohmeyer 2005). This also holds true for Germany, where the chances to become self …

data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …