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A Detailed Decomposition of Changes in Wage Inequality in Reunified Post-Transition Germany 1999-2006. Accounting for Sample Selection

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a decade after reunification. For that purpose, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1999 – 2006, and implement the decomposition methodologies of Fields (2003) and Yun (2006). I find that during the sub-period 1999-2002 each of the characteristics effect, ...

Changes in the Gender Wage Gap in Germany during a Period of Rising Wage Inequality 1999-2006: Was it Discrimination in the Returns to Human Capital?

In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified Germany during the period 1999 – 2006. I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and implement two alternative decomposition methodologies; the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991) decomposition, and a methodology that totally differences the Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) decomposition, found ...

Non-cognitive skills, occupational choices, and entrepreneurship: an empirical analysis of entrepreneurs' career choices

Entrepreneurship literature provides evidence that non-cognitive skills, such as personality traits, predict entrepreneurial behaviour in terms of creating and managing a business venture. This study shows that an entrepreneurship-prone personality is strongly associated with other career decisions that are likely to lead to entrepreneurship, such as a choice of an occupation. Empirical analysis is ...

On the characterisation and measurement of the welfare effects of income mobility from an ex-ante perspective

Poverty and income inequality in Luxembourg and the 'Grande Région' in comparative perspective

Does Switching to a Western German Employer Still Pay Off? An Analysis for Eastern Germany

This paper deals with the medium-term effects of job mobility on the average wage growth of job-movers in eastern Germany. The analysis is based on all employees subject to social insurance contributions working in eastern Germany in 2004. Using a statistical matching procedure combined with a difference-in-differences estimator, we observe that job-movers achieve an average annual wage increase of ...

Equalizing Income Versus Equalizing Opportunity - A Comparison of the United States and Germany

International Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food

Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustment on Wealth Inequality

Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to adjust for age effects in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other factors. This new method is superior ...

Personality Psychology and Economics

This chapter explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is reviewed about the “situational specificity” of personality traits and preferences. An extreme version of the ...