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Gender pay gaps among highly educated professionals — Compensation components do matter

Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male–female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people working in one specific industry: in particular for more experienced employees in higher positions of firm hierarchies ...

Trust and Control at the Workplace: Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe

Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i. e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals’ inclination to trust others. Trust is measured by the ...

Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. The first approach argues that explicit bonuses serve as substitutes for implicit career concerns. The second approach claims that bonuses are used as complements to an executive’s internal career. Our data ...

Intergenerational mobility for whom? The experience of high- and low-earning sons in international perspective

Lifecycle bias in estimates of intergenerational earnings persistence

Demanding Work. The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy

Functional Form and Heterogeneity in Models for Count Data

Exploring Shorrocks Mobility Indices Using European Data

Starting from the approach proposed by Schluter and Trede (2003) we develop a continuous and alternative measure of mobility which first, allows to identify mobility over different parts of the earnings distribution and second, to distinguish between mobility that tends to reduce or increase the level of permanent inequality. This paper focuses on four European countries, Denmark, Germany, Spain and ...

New patterns of class persistence for young people? (Dissertation)

The dissertation project looks at the development of intergenerational class mobility in young age cohorts in Germany over the last two decades. Differences between women and men are analyzed employing both descriptive measures as well as statistical estimation techniques (logistic regression). The study uses the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). Next to class specific obstacles to social mobility ...

Gender and economic inequality