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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …

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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...

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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the …

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

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Personality and Career: She's Got What It Takes

Fietze, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The female share in management positions is quite low in Germany. The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women … boards of the top 200 private companies in Germany, only 2.5 percent of members are female. Many studies have focused on the … other white-collar employees in Germany's private sector. While bivariate results based on data from the German Socio …

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants' identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It...

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Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper uses the concept of ethnic self-identification of immigrants in a twodimensional framework. It acknowledges the fact that attachments to the home and the host country are not necessarily mutually exclusive. There are three possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely...

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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

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