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Occupational sex segregation and management-level wages in Germany: What role does firm size play?
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286911
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547957
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600921
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Obesity and the labor market: A fresh look at the weight penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - 2014
OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … lower wages because they lack the muscular strength required in such occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334233
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Why women don't ask: Gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth
Pfeifer, Christian; Stephan, Gesine - 2018
The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main …-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This … points to the fact that social norms, gender roles, and gender identity are at least partly responsible for the gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011825080
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Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … lower wages because they lack the muscular strength required in such occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744675
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012320268
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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 - 2011
Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600999
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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 …-shaped association between bmi and wages among young workers. Among young male workers, work satisfaction is affected beyond the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334234
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011813219