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?
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Wages; gaps; discrimination; decomposition; characteristics effect; coefficient effect;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D30 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - General
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HRM-2010-05-02 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2010-05-02 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2010-05-02 (Transition Economics)
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