private than in the public sector. Our test results show that, contrary to the public sector, there are no gender differences …

Germany over the last four decades. Using a large administrative data set which covers the years 1975 to 2008, I find that … wage inequality increased and wage mobility decreased for male and female workers in East and West Germany. Women faced a … entire observation period. The mobility decline was sharper in East Germany so that the level of wage mobility has fallen …

This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable … private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the analysis shows that if a large part of the gender wage gap can be … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender …

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 …

Lohnstruktur für den Arbeitsmarkt gibt es relativ wenig detaillierte empirische Evidenz zu deren Ausgestaltung und Dynamik für …

die berufliche Qualifikation, das Geschlecht, den Erwerbsstatus, die Branchenzugehörigkeit und das Alter. Die Analyse …

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 …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …

, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that … that we use linked employer-employee data to look at within-firm gender wage differentials. To investigate the theoretical … hypotheses regarding the effect of selected human resource measures on gender wage inequality, we calculate a firm …

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and … occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make … persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time. Second, in the lower part of the wage distribution …