We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … in Germany and we provide first evidence for the relationship between the Big Five and the migrant wage gap. Our results …

We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential … amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in …) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage …

. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …

In this paper we examine the linkages between involvement into global value chains (GVCs) and the gender wage … added embodied in exports (FVA/Exp.) We augment the Mincerian regression with GVC variable and report gender wage … lower. However, the relationship between GVC and wages differs in respect to gender; women are more affected by the negative …

With its introduction in 2015, the statutory minimum wage in Germany intends to benefit primarily low-wage workers …. Thus, this paper aims at estimating the effectiveness of the im- plemented wage floor on gender wage gaps in the lower half … decrease by 2.46 and 6.34 percentage points respectively in the West and East of Germany after 2015. Applying counterfactual …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are … public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are … public sector the sign of the coefficient changes. The results for eastern Germany are different with respect to satisfaction …

between spousal personality and earnings while accounting for the potential endogeneity of the selection into marriage. Using …

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …