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Distributional and Behavioral Effects of the Gender Wage Gap

Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically … lower than male wages, what are the distributional consequences (disposable income) and what are the labor market effects … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …

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Nobody to Play with?: The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Osberg, Lars - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...

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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Sierminska, Eva M.; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income and wealth within the household context....

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Social Custom, Free-Riders, and Trade Union Membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998

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How Robust Are Simulated Employment Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany?: A Comparison of Different Data Sources and Assumptions

Müller, Kai-Uwe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

effects are sensitive to measurement errors in wages, the representativeness of the sample with respect to several types of …

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Employment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany: Semi-Parametric Estimations from Cross-Sectional Data

Müller, Kai-Uwe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...

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Labor Supply of Married Females in Estonia

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Koulikov, Dmitri - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In the first step, we obtain parameter estimates of the self …

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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime

Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...

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GEE Estimation of a Two-Equation Panel Data Model: An Analysis of Wage Dynamics and the Incidence of Profit-Sharing in West Germany

Pannenberg, Markus; Spieß, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

positive conditional correlation of wages and the incidence of profit-sharing. Furthermore, they indicate that permanent … shocks have a long-lasting effect on transitory wages but not on the incidence of profit-sharing. Hence, the results support … wages more closely to productivity. …

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Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany

Myck, Michal; Ochmann, Richard; Qari, Salmai - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

There is by now a lot of evidence showing a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage and earnings inequality during the 2000s in Germany. Our study is the first to decompose this cross-sectional variance into its permanent and transitory parts for years beyond 2000. Using data from the German...

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