Fixed-term Contracts and Wages Revisited Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
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Fixed-term Contracts and Wages Revisited Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany. / Pfeifer, Christian.
in: Journal for Labour Market Research, Jahrgang 45, Nr. 2, 01.07.2012, S. 171-183.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
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T1 - Fixed-term Contracts and Wages Revisited Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
AU - Pfeifer, Christian
PY - 2012/7/1
Y1 - 2012/7/1
N2 - This empirical research note uses linked employer-employee data from the German Federal Statistical Office to estimate wage differentials between workers with fixed-term contracts and permanent contracts. The data set allows to analyze wage differentials within firms and across the wage distribution. The main findings are: (1) Worker characteristics account for about half of the unconditional mean wage differential. The wage disadvantage of workers with fixed-term contracts is further reduced by the inclusion of occupations and firm fixed effects to approximately ten percent. (2) The wage disadvantage is larger at the lower tail of the wage distribution and quite constant in the middle and upper parts of the wage distribution.
AB - This empirical research note uses linked employer-employee data from the German Federal Statistical Office to estimate wage differentials between workers with fixed-term contracts and permanent contracts. The data set allows to analyze wage differentials within firms and across the wage distribution. The main findings are: (1) Worker characteristics account for about half of the unconditional mean wage differential. The wage disadvantage of workers with fixed-term contracts is further reduced by the inclusion of occupations and firm fixed effects to approximately ten percent. (2) The wage disadvantage is larger at the lower tail of the wage distribution and quite constant in the middle and upper parts of the wage distribution.
KW - Economics
KW - Dual internal labor market
KW - Fixed-term contract
KW - linked employer-employee data
KW - Wage differential
KW - wage distribution
KW - Gender and Diversity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84975299226&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12651-012-0107-9
DO - 10.1007/s12651-012-0107-9
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 45
SP - 171
EP - 183
JO - Journal for Labour Market Research
JF - Journal for Labour Market Research
SN - 1614-3485
IS - 2
ER -