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Low-wage employment versus unemployment: Which one provides better prospects for women?
Using German SOEP data, 1999 - 2009, this study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women, where we distinguish between full-time and part-time working. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model with random effects and find that having a low-wage job - compared to having a high-wage job - ceteris paribus decreases the probability of being high-paid in the future. This negative effect is significantly larger for part-time jobs than for full-time jobs. We find mixed evidence for a low-pay-no-pay cycle: compared to being high-paid, having a low-paid job increases the risk of being unemployed in the next period only for part-time workers. However, concerning future wage prospects low-paid women are clearly better off than unemployed or inactive women. We argue that for women low-wage jobs can serve as stepping stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed and waiting for a better job.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies ; ISSN: 2193-9012 ; Volume: 3 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 21 ; Pages: 1-17 ; Heidelberg: Springer
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Wirtschaft
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
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Low-pay dynamics
State dependence
Dynamic multinomial logit model
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mosthaf, Alexander
Schank, Thorsten
Schnabel, Claus
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Heidelberg
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2014
- DOI
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doi:10.1186/2193-9012-3-21
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- Artikel
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- Mosthaf, Alexander
- Schank, Thorsten
- Schnabel, Claus
- Springer
Time of origin
- 2014
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