Table 2 Wage Models for West Germany
Censored Regression Model | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Log Real Wages | ||||
Men | Women | |||
Coefficient | za | Coefficient | za | |
Year of entry (ref: 1998–2002) | ||||
2003–2005 | −0.023 | −5.7 | −0.030 | −5.5 |
2006–2009 | −0.089 | −29.8 | −0.088 | −20.1 |
Skill level (ref: vocational training with at most an intermediate degree) | ||||
Missing information on educational level | −0.205 | −11.1 | −0.174 | −11.3 |
No vocational training with at most an intermediate degree | −0.220 | −38.4 | −0.217 | −23.3 |
High school/equivalent; with or without vocational training | 0.096 | 17.7 | 0.148 | 22.0 |
University/technical/professional college degree | 0.495 | 52.6 | 0.413 | 44.2 |
Potential experience b | 3.582 | 27.1 | 0.044 | 0.3 |
Potential experience squared b | −0.063 | −23.2 | 0.006 | 1.8 |
Preceding state (ref: job-to-job) | ||||
First spell | 0.024 | 5.7 | −0.014 | −2.4 |
Unemployed | −0.268 | −48.4 | −0.228 | −37.6 |
Job followed by gap | −0.179 | −34.4 | −0.190 | −31.9 |
Unemployment followed by gap | −0.179 | −29.9 | −0.198 | −28.3 |
Local labour demand (district level) | ||||
Unemployment rate | −0.002 | −2.1 | 0.003 | 2.2 |
GDP growth | 0.035 | 0.8 | 0.067 | 0.8 |
Federal state (ref: North Rhine-Westphalia) | ||||
Schleswig Holstein, Hamburg | −0.023 | −1.4 | 0.021 | 0.7 |
Lower Saxony, Bremen | −0.048 | −6.7 | −0.063 | −3.2 |
Hesse | 0.011 | 0.6 | 0.045 | 1.6 |
Rhineland Palatinate, Saarland | −0.049 | −4.4 | −0.048 | −2.8 |
Baden-Württemberg | 0.017 | 1.6 | 0.017 | 1.0 |
Bavaria | 0.008 | 0.5 | 0.038 | 1.1 |
Firm size (ref: < 20 employees) | ||||
20–49 | 0.128 | 34.1 | 0.176 | 31.3 |
50–249 | 0.181 | 37.1 | 0.268 | 49.2 |
250–999 | 0.270 | 45.8 | 0.395 | 50.1 |
1000 and more | 0.363 | 37.2 | 0.511 | 31.4 |
Industry (ref: business services) | ||||
Agriculture, mining | −0.221 | −13.1 | −0.174 | −7.8 |
Energy, traffic and information | −0.123 | −8.8 | −0.010 | −0.4 |
Manufacturing | 0.007 | 0.8 | −0.035 | −2.8 |
Construction | 0.005 | 0.5 | −0.173 | −8.0 |
Trade and retail | −0.035 | −4.3 | −0.051 | −3.7 |
Personal and domestic services | −0.359 | −32.0 | −0.247 | −21.3 |
Social and public services | −0.164 | −13.3 | −0.006 | −0.3 |
Temporary work agency | −0.543 | −43.2 | −0.405 | −31.5 |
Foreigner | −0.153 | −29.4 | −0.080 | −9.4 |
Constant | 4.017 | 270.0 | 3.941 | 209.9 |
Log (sigma) | −0.863 | −65.6 | −0.699 | 0.7 |
Wald chi 2 (33) | 39.685 | – | 38.019 | – |
Log pseudolikelihood | −105.077 | – | −72.515 | – |
Number of obs. | 178,065 | – | 99,012 | – |
Censored obs. | 17,278 | – | 2827 | – |