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Gender wage gap in West Germany : how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

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 …

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Wages in high-tech start-ups : do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?

Dorner, Matthias; Fryges, Helmut; Schopen, Kathrin - 2015

Due to their origin from universities, academic spin‐offs operate at the forefront of the technological development. Therefore, spin‐offs exhibit a skill‐biased labour demand, i.e. spin‐offs have a high demand for employees with cutting edge knowledge and technical skills. In order to...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been "rigid" in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Wage penalties for career interruptions : an empirical analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002

which can only be approximated using just the IAB employment sample. Our IV fixed effects estimation results suggest that …

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The returns to pencil use revisited

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2007

The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a computer, research on the wage effect of computer use effectively came to a halt after DiNardo and...

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Returns to education in West Germany : an empirical assessment

Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland

Steiner, Viktor; Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...

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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002 - Revised September 2002

is found for the effect of gender and cohort. …

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Education, gender and earnings in France and Germany : level and dispersion effects

Lauer, Charlotte (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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