2016

WageIndicator Publications 2016 - March 01, 2016

In January and February 2016 a dozen publications based on the analyses of WageIndicator data saw light. These publications have appeared in, amongst others, the IZA Journal of Labour Economics and the Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development. The papers deal with topics like the Gender Pay Gap in Europe; online job vacancies; the competitive advantage of a foreign language on the labour market; wage changes of sales personnel in Germany; a Sub-Saharan African estimation of the likelihoofd that women working are to be fiound in the service sectors in formal enterprises. All these papers are exclusiveily based on WageIndicator data.

Choosy with words in Salary Surveys: split-ballot experiment - March 01, 2016

Writing good survey questions is complex. Careful decisions need to be made, in particular as regards the wording. Obviously a question can be asked in numerous ways. Each way however, may differ when it comes to being understood, e.g. some wordings may be more familiar than others. Previous studies have shown that unfamiliar terms can induce survey break-off and reduce response quality. How to deal with that problem?

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