Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten konnte ein deutlicher Anstieg von in-work poverty in Europa beobachtet werden. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit lag in der Identifikation verschiedener Einflussfaktoren auf der personenbezogenen Ebene und struktureller Rahmenbedingungen des Wohlfahrtsstaates und Arbeitsmarktes...

Improving school quality with limited resources is a key issue of policy. It has been suggested that instructing teachers to follow specific practices together with tight monitoring of their activities may help improve outcomes in under-performing schools that usually serve poor populations....

Modelling the covariance matrix in linear mixed models provides an additional advantage in making inference about subject-specific effects, particularly in the analysis of repeated measurement data, where time-ordering of the responses induces significant correlation. Some difficulties...

This paper aims at identifying the magnitude of excess returns provided by the shares of an acquirer in a merger or acquisition transaction. In order to do so, the paper studies 352 transactions between January 1, 2003 and April 25, 2018 over the value of $100 mn at announcement involving an...