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Gender wage differences in West Germany: a cohort analysis
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2000
A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975 - 1995. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297712
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The changing gender gap across the wage distribution in the UK
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2001
This paper contributes descriptive evidence on the development of the gender wage gap for different skill groups and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297793
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Rising Wage Dispersion, After All ! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century
Kohn, Karsten - 2006
Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297539
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Gender wage differences in West Germany: a cohort analysis
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975 - 1995. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097582
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The changing gender gap across the wage distribution in the UK
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper contributes descriptive evidence on the development of the gender wage gap for different skill groups and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098413
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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002
This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297956
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297754
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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany
Lembcke, Alexander C.; Kohn, Karsten; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298031
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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010
the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that … for male (female) employees. Despite these changes, the gender wage gap remains almost constant, with some small gains for … contribute to an increase in the gender wage gap. Personal characteristics tend to reduce wage inequality for both, males and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300007
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Polarization and rising wage inequality: comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300009