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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...

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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835251

Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the … geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … embeddedness of self-employment. It examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are "rooted" in place and also whether those who …

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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?: Country Case Studies on Labour Market Segmentation

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focuson the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market...

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Assimilation and Cohort Effects for German Immigrants

Gundel, Sebastian; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

Demographic change and the rising demand for highly qualified labor in Germany attracts notice to the analysis of immigration. In addition, the pattern of immigration changed markedly during the past decades. Therefore we use the latest data of the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006...

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Development of Wage Inequality for Natives and Immigrants in Germany: Evidence from Quantile Regression and Decomposition

Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

To study the development of wage inequality is important for the economic performance as well as for the development of employment. First, I estimate the remuneration to personal characteristics for Germans and immigrants across the wage distribution using quantile regression. My database is the...

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Glass Ceiling Effect and Earnings: The Gender Pay Gap in Managerial Positions in Germany

Holst, Elke; Busch, Anne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital...

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Who Is Overeducated and Why?: Probit and Dynamic Mixed Multinomial Logit Analyses of Vertical Mismatch in East and West Germany

Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Schömann, Klaus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

Overeducation is an often overlooked facet of untapped human resources. But who is overeducated and why? Relying on SOEP data 1984‐2011, we use probit models for estimating the likelihood of entering overeducation and dynamic mixed multinomial logit models with random effects addressing state...

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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...

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