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Income differentials on regional labour markets in Southwest Germany

Author(s) -

Alice Guyot,

Stefan Berwing,

Maria Lauxen-Ulbrich

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

panoeconomicus

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.289

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 2217-2386

pISSN - 1452-595X

DOI - 10.2298/pan0903379g

Subject(s) - vocational education , descriptive statistics , demographic economics , economics , rural area , inequality , panel data , labour economics , geography , econometrics , economic growth , political science , statistics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , law

The aim of our paper is to identify explanatory variables for income disparities between women and men across different regional types. Using data from the BA Employment Panel (BEP) descriptive statistics show that the gender pay gap grows wider from core regions to periphery. The main explanatory variables for the income differentials are vocational education in the men's case and size of enterprise in the women's case. Whereas in the case of women the importance of vocational status increases and the importance of size of enterprise decreases from rural areas to urban areas

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