Despite the increasing incidence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are studied rarely. I therefore use SOEP panel data from 1984 to 2010 and apply different econometric approaches and definitions of part-time work to measure the socalled part-time wage gap of both,...

"Since 2009, the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) provides a statistical tool - named Logib-D - for firms to measure their internal wage inequality voluntarily. We use our estimation model of firm-specific gender pay gaps, developed in the DFG...

"Employee participation in the capital or profit of the firm is regarded as a suitable way to increase labour productivity if the employees' performance can not be monitored directly. Nonetheless employee participation in asset formation is currently used by few German firms. In this paper we...

"This study makes a contribution to explaining the gender-specific wage differentials in western Germany. On the basis of the IAB employment survey and the IAB additional survey I, we estimate the wages of men and women using flexible wage equations which take into consideration the entire...

Erwerbsunterbrechungen führen langfristig zu geringeren Einkommen. Eine einjährige Erwerbspause vermindert das durch die Berufserfahrung erworbene Humankapital um 33 %. Die daraus resultierenden Lohneinbußen hängen jedoch nicht nur von der Dauer, sondern auch vom Timing der Unterbrechung ab.

"Based on the Linked-Employer-Employee data from the IAB (LIAB) we show how the horizontal occupational segregation of men and women in German establishments developed between 1996 and 2005. For this purpose we apply the dissimilarity index and the standardized dissimilarity index at the...

Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I therefore use GSOEP panel data from 1984 to 2010 and apply different econometric approaches and definitions of part-time work to measure the so-called part-time wage gap of both,...