Monopsonistic Labour Markets and the Gender Pay Gap Theory and Empir
This book investigates models of spatial and dynamic monopsony and their application to the persistent empirical regularity of the gender pay gap. Theoretically, the main conclusion is that employers possess more monopsony power over their female employee
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Dr. Boris Hirsch Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Chair of Labour and Regional Economics Lange Gasse 20 90403 Nürnberg Germany [email protected]
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To my parents and grandparents
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all those people who have helped me in the course of my research that culminated in this Ph.D. thesis. First and foremost, I am deeply indebted to my academic supervisors. My special thanks go to my principal academic supervisor Claus Schnabel for his perpetual guidance and encouragement and for the many insightful discussions that helped greatly in forming this work. I am also deeply grateful to my second supervisor Jürgen Jerger for valuable advice and many useful suggestions that contributed substantially to this thesis’ completion. Apart from my supervisors, I am particularly grateful to my co-authors Marion König, Joachim Möller, Thorsten Schank, and Claus Schnabel. Large parts of Chapters 6 and 9 are grounded on joint work with them, and I benefited a lot from their comments and suggestions. Many thanks go to my colleagues at the Friedrich–Alexander–Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg and to the Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics and its members. The program’s excellent cour
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