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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010980674
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279309
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Differences in the earnings distribution of self- and dependent emploxed German men - evidence from a quantile regression decomposition analysis
Braakmann, Nils - 2007
This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel of 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 German dependant employment and using quantile...
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Self-employment in Spain: Transition and earnings differential
Álvarez, Gema; Gradín, Carlos; Otero, M. Soledad - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2009
In this paper we analyze the factors that influence transitions into self-employment in Spain using a discrete time duration model, and, given the evidence of lower earnings among self-employees, we further explain the earnings differential between employees and self-employees using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274458
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Self-employed individuals, time use, and earnings
Konietzko, Thorsten - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper analyzes the time allocation of self-employed men and women compared to men and women in paid employment and the impact of house-work on earnings of self-employed individuals using data from two German datasets. Self-employed women spend more time on housework activities and...
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884180
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A counterfactual decomposition analysis of immigrants-natives earnings in Malaysia
Anees, Muhammad; Sajjad, Muhammad; Ahmed, Ishfaq - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Economics of discrimination has been the topic of interest of many in the last decade or two. Human capital theory describes wage determination as a function of labour human capital and should be determined based on marginal productivity theorem of labour economics. Islamic theology also...
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Is Informality Bad? - Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516117
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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562528
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
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