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Does It Pay to Be a Woman?: Labour Demand Effects of Maternity-Related Job Protection and Replacement Incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267917
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128954
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Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595844
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Personality and Career: She's Got What It Takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances. We compare managers and …-Economic Panel (SOEP) in 2005 show that there are significant gender differences in personality traits, multivariate estimations … clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in career opportunities. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596279
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540168
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Persönlichkeit und Karriere: She's Got What it Takes
Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
In Deutschland sind Frauen in Führungspositionen unterrepräsentiert. Je höher die Hierarchiestufe desto geringer ist ihr Anteil unter den Führungskräften. Nur 2,5 Prozent der Vorstandsmitglieder der Top-200 Wirtschaftsunternehmen in Deutschland sind weiblich. Zahlreiche Studien untersuchen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479307
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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804166
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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages: A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185789
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461828
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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
Heineck, Guido - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
There is a long tradition in psychology, the social sciences and, more recently though, economics to hypothesize that religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental data however yield mixed results and there is barely any evidence for Germany. This study adds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267908