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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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Lower wages for less hours? : a simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany

Wolf, Elke - 2000

In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly a¤ected by the working hours. In...

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...

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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands

Wolf, Elke - 2001

Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … differentials between full-time and part-time employees, leads one to suppose that the existing wage gap in Germany may impede women …

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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...

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Does work time flexibility work? : An empirical assessment of the efficiency effects for German firms

Wolf, Elke (contributor); Beblo, Miriam (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Reassessing the impact of high performance workplaces

Wolf, Elke (contributor); Zwickel, Thomas (contributor) - 2002

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Is there a wage premium or wage discount for flexible hours?

Beblo, Miriam; Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - 2004

With flexible work time arrangements firms can quickly adjust to demand fluctuations, while employees may benefit from more time sovereignty. Depending on the specific type of arrangement the accompanying wage effects are ambiguous and have rarely been analyzed. According to the theory of...

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Gender earnings gap in German firms : the impact of firm characteristics and institutions

Heinze, Anja (contributor); Wolf, Elke (contributor) - 2006

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

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