What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
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- Lechmann, Daniel S. J. & Schnabel, Claus, 2012. "What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data," Discussion Papers 77, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Chair of Labour and Regional Economics.
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self-employment; self-employed; earnings differential; entrepreneurship; gender pay gap; Germany;JEL classification:
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-04-03 (All new papers)
- NEP-ENT-2012-04-03 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-EUR-2012-04-03 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LAB-2012-04-03 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2012-04-03 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2012-04-03 (Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty)
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