decade, female migration to Germany has increased. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany, although the … 2007, about 7.3 million foreigners were living in Germany. While the total number of foreigners has decreased over the last …-specific determinants of remittances from Germany. Here we attempt to fill this gap, focusing on gender roles and network effects. We …

study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who … proportion explained decreases to only one-third. This reveals the real extent to which women are disadvantaged on the labor … market. In addition, we observe not only that the wages in typical women's jobs are lower than in typical men's jobs but also …

all, but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address how the … leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … differences were observed among women in high-level managerial positions, women who worked in non-high-level positions, and women …

The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market … supervisory boards of Germany's largest private sector companies has created a 'male monoculture' there. In the literature …, structural and ideological barriers are identified as the reasons for this severe underrepresentation of women. Increasing the …

Remittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings show, above all, that foreign women remit less money than foreign …

for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and …

The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … there are in such positions. Men have numerous role models to follow whereas women lack this opportunity: In the executive … boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the …

West Germany. In the background of this analysis, the influence of institutions on the allocation of resources is examined …. The necessity of a gender view in economics when analyzing the labor supply - especially of women - is discussed on the …

positions in Germany building on a review from a cross-national perspective of women?s progress to high-ranking positions and of …Prejudices and stereotypical beliefs about the role of women in society often limit their chances of reaching top … initiatives to overcome the ?glass ceiling?. Suggestions are made for improving the situation of women in order to permit more …