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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...

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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

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September 11th and the Earnings of Muslims in Germany: The Moderating Role of Education and Firm Size

Cornelißen, Thomas; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2010

While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the...

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COVID-19: A crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self …

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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: A labor supply side perspective

Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual …

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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens: Geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes

Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010

gender research to explain why men's and women's evaluations of justice are determined to a considerable degree by the … specific situation within their household. The assumptions derived regarding gender-specific patterns in justice attitudes are … thesis that gender-specific patterns in the evaluation of personal earnings are both reduced and increased in dual …

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Obesity and the labor market: A fresh look at the weight penalty

Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - 2014

This paper applies semiparametric regression models to shed light on the relation-ship between body weight and labor market outcomes in Germany. We find conclusive evidence that these relationships are poorly described by linear or quadratic OLS specifications, which have been the main...

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A weighty issue revisited: The dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany

Kropfhäußer, Frieder; Sunder, Marco - 2014

We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous literature, the dynamic models indicate that there is an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages among young...

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Identifying age penalty in women's wages: New method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; van Staveren, Irene - 2017

Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We … gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our … results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post …

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