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To which extent do happiness correlates contribute to the stability of life satisfaction? Which method is appropriate to provide a conclusive answer to this question? Based on life satisfaction data of the German SOEP, we show that by Negative Binomial quasi-maximum likelihood estimation statements can be made as to how far correlates of happiness contribute to the stabilisation of life satisfaction. ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
22 (2021), 8, 3611-3629
| Johannes Klement
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We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, ...
London:
Centre fo Economomic Policy Research (CEPR),
2020,
(CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15338)
| Maria Koumenta, Mario Pagliero, Davud Rostam-Afschar
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The Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach has been widely used to attribute group-level differences in an outcome to differences in endowment, coefficients, and their interactions. The method has been implemented for Stata in the popular oaxaca command for cross-sectional analyses. In recent decades, however, research questions have been more often focused on the decomposition of group-based ...
In:
The Stata Journal
21 (2021), 2, 360-410
| Hannes Kröger, Jörg Hartmann
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Motherhood penalties vary strongly across societal contexts. While most studies that aim to explain such differences focus on institutions, a smaller literature refers to the influence of cultural norms or a complex interaction between the two. Empirically, however, it is yet unclear if such norms play a role and how they—jointly with institutions—contribute to motherhood penalties. We make use of ...
2020,
(SocArXiv Preprints)
| Matthias Collischon, Andreas Eberl, Malte Reichelt
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Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis of the effect of parenthood on women’s and men’s earnings using propensity score matching. I estimate the ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1120)
| Charlotte H. Feldhoff
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An important issue on the political agenda of many developed countries is the intensive margin of formal child care and, consequently, the effects of expanding the operating hours of child care institutions. We add to this debate by studying the effects of offering full-day child care on child development. Specifically, we analyze the consequences of a substantial increase of full-day slots at the ...
In:
Labour Economics
55 (2018), December 2018, 259-281
| Christina Felfe, Larissa Zierow
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we analyze the effects of exposure to globalization on the fertility and marital behavior in Germany, until recently a lowest-low fertility setting. We find that exposure to greater import competition from Eastern Europe led to worse labor market outcomes and lower fertility rates. In contrast, workers in industries that benefited from increased ...
In:
Demography
59 (2022), 6, 2135-2159
| Osea Giuntella, Lorenzo Rotunno, Luca Stella
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The German law on co-determination at the plant level (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) stipulates that works councilors are neither to be financially rewarded nor penalized for their activities. This regulation contrasts with publicized instances of excessive payments. The divergence has sparked a debate about the need to reform the law. This paper provides representative evidence on wage payments to works ...
In:
Economic and Industrial Democracy
45 (2024), 1, 83-115
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
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While research often invokes gender disparities in wage-determining characteristics to explain gender pay gaps, why these gender disparities and gender pay gaps vary across contexts has received less attention. Therefore, I analyze how subnational gender ideologies predict gender pay gaps in two ways: as directly affecting gender pay gaps and as indirectly predicting gender pay gaps through intermediate ...
In:
Social Sciences
10 (2021), 9, 347
| Maik Hamjediers
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Employment agencies aim to match individuals to appropriate jobs. There are public and private employment agencies, which co-exist in many countries. Selection effects may be relevant in the sense that private agencies potentially engage in ‘cream-skimming’ by prioritizing highly qualified workers. The resulting job match quality is also important from an individual, a firm, and a society perspective. ...
In:
Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research
74 (2022), 2, 137-162
| Adam Ayaita, Christian Grund, Lisa Pütz