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East Germany's wage gap: a non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2006
East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap … implied by the contractual wages specified in collective wage agreements is drifting ever further apart from the wage gap in … terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of establishment-specific factors - such as sectoral affiliation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263641
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East Germany's wage gap : a non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics
Görzig, Bernd (contributor); Gornig, Martin (contributor);  … - 2006
East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap … implied by the contractual wages specified in collective wage agreements is drifting ever further apart from the wage gap in … terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of establishment-specific factors - such as sectoral affiliation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375735
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East Germany’s Wage Gap: A non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2006
East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap … implied by the contractual wages specified in collective wage agreements is drifting ever further apart from the wage gap in … terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of establishment-specific factors — such as sectoral affiliation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652784
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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More:Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer-employee data set. We improve on the previous literature (i) by using anew methodology to quantify the contribution of an extensive set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522216
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Wage Structure Effects of International Trade:Evidence from a Small Open Economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries andbetween high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on howinternational trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate theimpact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360536
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The Stochastic Fluctuation of the Quantile Regression Curve
Härdle, Wolfgang; Song, Song - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008
Let (X1, Y1), . . ., (Xn, Yn) be i.i.d. rvs and let l(x) be the unknownp-quantile regression curve of Y on X. A quantile-smootherln(x) is a localised, nonlinear estimator of l(x). The strong uniformconsistency rate is established under general conditions. In many applicationsit is necessary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860568
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Maintaining (locus of) control? : assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008827013
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Voluntary work and wages
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - 2014
volunteering on wages gives support to the hypotheses that volunteering enables the access to fruitful informal networks, avoids …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527209
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Analysis of Gender Differences in Salaries : Evidence for India (Delhi Ncr)
Agarwala, Kamakshi - 2019
Gender discrimination in the labour market has been a subject of various social and political debates all around the world. The current research is an examination of the prevalent wage differentials in the organised sector of India's capital city, Delhi NCR. The cross sectional data set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899178
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Wages Over the Course of Structural Transformation : Evidence from India
Hasan, Rana - 2019
This paper uses labor force survey data from India for 2000 and 2012 to examine how wages behave over the course of … and routine manual occupations outside of agriculture, are associated with an improvement in average wages. Finally … wages — even more so for women. Overall, our results are consistent with the notion that policies that encourage the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863215