We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as often as male athletes and whether or not their returns to risky strategies differ. Returns to...

Wir untersuchen auf Basis von Daten aus den Arbeitskostenerhebungen 2000 und 2004 und den Verdienststrukturerhebungen 2002 und 2006 (Statistik Austria) die Zusammenhänge zwischen betrieblicher Weiterbildung und Löhnen sowie der Lohnverteilung in österreichischen Unternehmen. Zusätzliche...

Die Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen betrieblicher Weiterbildung und Produktivität für den produzierenden Sektor und den Dienstleistungssektor in Österreich. Die Daten stammen von den europäischen Erhebungen über berufliche Weiterbildung in Unternehmen (CVTS) der Jahre 1999 und...

"We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We estimate quantile regressions and investigate the gender wage gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women. We decompose the gender wage gap into the parts which are due to different...

"Analysing the British Labour Force Survey, we highlight that dependent self-employed workers constitute a group distinct from both employees and independent self-employed workers in the labour market group. Dependent self-employed workers show characteristics of a more volatile labour market...

The fiscal sustainability of state pensions is a central concern of policymakers in nearly every advanced economy. Policymakers have attempted to ensure the sustainability of these programs in recent decades by raising retirement ages. However, there are concerns that keeping older workers in...

We determine workforce composition and wages in rms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co-workers. In equilibrium, workers' wages depend on the production struc- ture of rms, own group size, and aggregate workforce composition in the rm. We estimate the wage eects of workforce...

We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 using Juhn et al. (Workers and their wages, AEI Press, Washington DC, pp 107–143, <CitationRef CitationID="CR14">1991</CitationRef>) decomposition. We analyze data from Austrian tax records which we merge with social security records and Austrian micro-censuses...</citationref>

In many countries, social security insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. The insurance may create a moral hazard for firms, leading to inefficient monitoring of absences or to an underinvestment in the prevention of absences. We exploit an administrative threshold in the...

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co-workers. In equilibrium, workers’ wages depend on the production structure of firms, own group size, and aggregate workforce composition in the firm. We estimate the wage effects of...