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Non scholae, sed vitae discimus!: the importance of fields of study for the gender wage gap among Germany university graduates during labor market entry and the first years of thei...

Braakmann, Nils - 2008

This paper investigates the gender wage gap among German university graduates in their first job and five to six years into their careers. We find that women earn about 30% less than men at their first job and about 35% less after five to six years. Results from standard decomposition techniques...

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Fields of training, plant characteristics and the gender wage gap in entry wages among skilled workers: evidence from German administrative data

Braakmann, Nils - 2008

This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security record. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for both the training plant and the current employer, results from standard decomposition...

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The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages: evidence from Germany

Braakmann, Nils - 2009

This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the big five", positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

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The role of firm-level and regional human capital for the social returns to education: evidence from German social security data

Braakmann, Nils - 2009

This paper provides first evidence on the anatomy of human capital externalities arising from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security records, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions...

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Are there social returns to both firm-level and regional human capital? Evidence from German social security data

Braakmann, Nils - 2009

This paper provides first evidence on the social returns to education from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions incorporating measures of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265939

Base salaries, bonus payments, and work absence among managers in a German company

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2011

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and …

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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

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Differences in the earnings distribution of self- and dependent employed German men: evidence from a quantile regression decomposition analysis

Braakmann, Nils - 2007

This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2005 to study the earnings differential between self- and dependent employed German men. Constructing a counterfactual earnings distribution for the self-employed in dependent employment and using quantile regression...

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Intra-firm wage inequality and firm performance: first evidence from German linked employer-employee-data

Braakmann, Nils - 2008

Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity … relative minor influence of intra-firm wage inequality on firm productivity. If anything, they provide some support for a view … suggesting that some inequality may be beneficial, while too much leads to a detrimental effect on productivity. …

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