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The intergenerational transmission of occupational preferences, segregation, and wage inequality: Empirical evidence from three countries
Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2012
Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290726
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Occupational Preferences, Segregation, and Wage Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Three Countries
Eberharter, Veronika V. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818238
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He's a chip off the old block: The persistency of occupational choices among generations
Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2013
education or role models (nurture), we determine the persistency separately for children who grew up with their biological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314764
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He's a Chip Off the Old Block: The Persistency of Occupational Choices among Generations
Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
education or role models (nurture), we determine the persistency separately for children who grew up with their biological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896281
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The myth of equal opportunity in Germany?
Consiglio, Valentina S.; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2019
major objective of German policy makers. However, evidence on the access to education suggests that opportunities of … opportunity on the German labour market to occur along the lines of parental education even beyond the education system, it urges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140768
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data: An application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - 2013
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317551
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896235
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation: An analysis for Germany
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2014
, overall, education and in particular labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010378275
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Maternity leave and its consequences for subsequent careers in Germany
Franz, Nele Elisa - 2014
This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464371
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Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades … both approaches produce estimates of average returns to education that decrease until the late 1990s and increase … afterwards. The gender gap in returns to education seems to vanish. Furthermore, we find that the so-called "baby boomer" cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600659