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In:
Labour Economics (European association of Labour Economists 16th Annual Conference, Lisboa, September 9-11, 2004
12 (2005), 4, 469-486
| Rhys Davies, Gaëlle Pierre
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Using stochastic panel wage frontiers, this paper estimates the relative underpayment of females and males in the reunified Germany. The estimates are initially applied to discrimination analysis. It finds that females have higher underpayment and that the male-female differential increased over the period 1991–1993. However, the paper suggests that the estimates of underpayment reflect other concerns, ...
In:
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
70 (2001), 1, 107-114
| Peter Dawson, Timothy Hinks, Duncan Watson
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2006,
(IZA DP No. 2094)
| Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari
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This paper investigates entrepreneurial women confronted with the self-employment or business career choice. Optimistic women have a higher proclivity to be businesswomen. Businesswomen select self- over paid employment when they are young or old, less educated, married or with under-age children. There are no significant native-immigrant differences. However, among immigrant women those who are in ...
In:
KYKLOS
59 (2006), 4, 465–480
| Amelie F. Constant
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In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in these challenging jobs. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel I estimate selection adjusted wage ...
In:
International Journal of Manpower
30 (2009), 1/2, 145 - 162
| Amelie F. Constant
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often perceived as irrational and suboptimal choices. Quantifying ethnic identity is a major issue; even more challenging ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2014,
(IZA DP No. 8571)
| Amelie F. Constant
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2006,
(IZA DP No. 2420)
| Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
69 (2009), 3, 274-287
| Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of naturalization of non-EU immigrant household heads with a fresh look at the role of integration and ethnicity. Design/methodology/approach - Employing data on immigrant household heads from the German Socioeconomic Panel differentiation is made among those who already have been naturalized, those who plan to take citizenship, and those ...
In:
International Journal of Manpower
30 (2009), 1/2, 70-82
| Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2006,
(IZA DP No. 2350)
| Amelie F. Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Laura Zimmerman