identified. We argue that if a reduced form estimation of RTT is undertaken, firm-year fixed effects must be added in order to … eliminate this bias. Estimates from two large panel datasets from Portugal and Germany show that the bias is empirically …

Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I … measure the socalled part-time wage gap of both, men and women in East and West Germany. A very robust finding is that part …-constant unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in East and West Germany. Furthermore, the type of …

Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I … unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in West and East Germany. Furthermore, the type of … that the part-time wage gap shrinks, the empirical evidence reveals that wage differentials in West-Germany increased over …

the job, job duration should be distributed uniformly. Using extreme value theory, we can infer the shape of the wage …